How it works: USB
THE UNIVERSAL SERIAL Bus (USB) arrived on 6 May 1998, at Flint Center, Cupertino. Specified by an Intel-led industry partnership, it had already appeared in a few PCs, but it was only when Apple unveiled the first-gen iMac, with the traditional interfaces abolished, that we knew USB was the future.
USB 1.1, capable of speeds up to 12Mbps, was “the new generation of I/O,” announced Steve Jobs. Simple, he said. Elegant, he said. And he was basically right. Although, if he’d envisaged that 20 years later USB
