(No, just keep on. These kinds of regulations were long overdue)
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I actually do have devices that old. The connector and communications protocol outlived the drivers. It'll be recognized as some sort of USB device, but I can never use it without a VM running an ancient guest OS.
That was my biggest guess that the hardware would work just fine whilst the software would make problems. Maybe one could get it running after doing a bit of tinkering... First guess would have been to try a Linux generic driver or sth... Maybe, with some tinkering, one would get it to work but even the fact that it is still recognised after all that time is amazing...
I mean, a PC the size of a night table shrunk to the size of a pocket watch. Just amazing!