In article , Paul
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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).

i didn't list every third party accessory available.

non-apple pci cards work perfectly fine, often without any additional
drivers.

and what 'sleep problem' ? it's possible for a card to inhibit sleep,
but that's up to the card.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuBus
NuBus (pron. 'New Bus') is a 32-bit parallel computer bus, originally
developed at MIT and standardized in 1987 as a part of the NuMachine
workstation project. The first complete implementation of the NuBus
was done by Western Digital for their NuMachine, and for the Lisp
Machines Inc. LMI Lambda. The NuBus was later incorporated in Lisp
products by Texas Instruments (Explorer), and used as the main
expansion bus by Apple Computer and NeXT. It is no longer widely used
outside the embedded market.

nubus was well ahead of what existed on pcs at the time:
In addition, NuBus was agnostic about the processor itself. Most
buses up to this point conformed to the signalling and data standards
of the machine they were plugged into (being big or little endian for
instance). NuBus made no such assumptions, which meant that any NuBus
card could be plugged into any NuBus machine, as long as there was an
appropriate device driver.

numerous third party manufacturers made many different nubus cards for
macs, all without any apple-specific components, as the original poster
incorrectly claimed.

Some Macs used regular PCI.

all macs since 1995 use pci.

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

so do pcs. so what?

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).

that's a driver issue.

third party cards worked without any apple-specific components, as the
original poster incorrectly claimed.