nospam wrote:
In article , lew
wrote:

Or doing some googling to see if Epson is doing what "apple crap" used
to do &/or will be doing. i.e. hardware devices like hdd, 4mm tape, etc
and 3.5 in floppies. apple required a special roms for identity as an
apple supported product; a floppy disk need to have a identifier on the
floppy as an apple supported product.

Without the apple roms & identifiers on a product, the product will
not work with any apple computer.

bull****. non-apple hard drives, tape drives, floppy drives (for very
old macs), memory, mice/trackballs, displays, etc. will work with macs.

I see you were careful not to add PCI cards to your list (the "sleep" problem).

Some Macs used NuBus cards. No problem there, as what
else uses NuBus cards ?

Some Macs used regular PCI.

A later model used 3.3V PCI cards (um...)

My Mac G4 has an AGP slot for video. To convert
between PC and Mac video, requires four signal
modifications. I changed my Mac video card to run
on the PC... because after only *one* OS version,
no more drivers for the card were supplied. I used
that card for gaming on the PC for at least five
years. Until something better came along (new PC box).

My Mac G4 only has USB 1.1 on the back. When silicon
was easily available at the time, to provide USB 2.0.
Every time I look at the back of that machine,
I mutter the name of... "Steve Jobs". Because it was
Jobs who decided that the Firewire connector would
be kind, and he would "relegate" the USB connector
on the box. It means, if I plug in a USB flash
stick, it runs at... 1MB/sec.

I was using Macs, for the software from work, and for
work at home (editing 500 page documents at home,
instead of having to drive to work). I wouldn't
say I was exactly "in love" with the hardware
end of things. That tended to the "dumpster fire"
side of things. There's nothing like playing
3D games at 20FPS for your entire life :-/

Paul