On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 04:35:06 +0400, "Maxim S. Shatskih"
wrote:

won't break. Win95 vintage stuff doesn't support USB well or firewire
at all; the laptops in question don't do Cardbus II, so no USB, and
frankly, USB has always proven itself an unreliable fussbudget.

On laptops, USB is very, very great. Maybe USB is one of the greatest ideas of
the laptop computing.
Without USB, you have nearly no ways of attaching hardware to laptop.

The PC-Card (PCMCIA) and Cardbus interfaces were intended to be for
this, in exactly the same way that the ISA and PCI busses are the
mechanisms for attaching harware to a desktop.

Max

Malc.