This brings back memories...
In the lab where I grew up (was a student in, in the '90s at any rate), they had a load of old Macs. This was the age of the Zip disk, and Zip drives came in two flavours - parallel port and SCSI for Macs, later a third flavour - the new fangled USB, but that's another story.
Those who were familiar with the external SCSI connectors on those old Macs might already have guessed where this is going. Jobs et al had decided in their infinite wisdom that the connector should be identical to the parallel port connector. However, woe-betide anyone who thought they could plug the parallel-port Zip drive into the Mac's SCSI port. I can nether confirm nor deny whether I may, at the time, have accidentally killed one of those Macs by the simple act of attempting to do just this...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
