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by NikolaNovak 978 days ago
Yeah, that was actually quite helpful (when properly implemented). Especially in era of laptops that had a mixture, you knew to plug in the portable drive into blue not the black USB port (and put your phone to charge into yellow one:).
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Yellow (always supplies power) was non standard, as was green. Would have been nice if that was included in an addendum to the USB spec though.