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[Tony Duell]

> Yes, but a 36 pin connector never would have fit on the 'olde standard'
> for the IBM-PC, which was an MDA card with a 9 pin connector for video,

It's not my fault that IBM made the bracket too small, and actually, the 
slot in the back panel is just too narrow to take a standard Blue Ribbon 
connector, which makes GPIB cards a little difficult to do right (the 
normal thing is to use the IEC625 (IIRC) wiring on a DB25 connector again).

> and a 25 pin connector for the printer.  Many, many first-generation PCs
> never had any 'I/O' beyond this (except the 37 pin connector on back of
> the floppy controller for the external third and fourth floppy drives,
> of course, which nobody ever used).  Moving data around was a sneakernet

False!. I used it (and still use it). My XT (on my desk in front of me) 
has 2 internal 5.25" 360K drives, 2 external 3.5" 720K drives all on the 
standard controller). Oh, and a second controller with 2 8" drives.

> thing.  Or you printed it on paper.

I would have thought RS232 ports wrre not that uncommon. Most multi-I/O 
cards included one. 

-tony