{"id":258,"date":"2008-12-26T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T08:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2008-12-23T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T20:22:31","slug":"its-a-long-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Long Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been true for years: Computer printers do not come with cables. Why?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOnce upon a time I wrote books about buying computers. Along with the computer purchase usually comes a computer printer. That brings up one of my printer-buying mantras: <em>Printers do not come with cables.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My mantra was true back in the days when printers used the old printer (or Centrontics) cable. I found that absence puzzling. Someone explained it to me that not all printers had the same connectors as the computers or blah-blah-blah. I bought that explanation, but it didn&#8217;t seem logical. (There isn&#8217;t any logic in the computer industry.)<\/p>\n<p>Today, computer printers still don&#8217;t come with cables \u2014 even though pretty much all printers today use the standard A-B type of USB cable. I mean, how cheap are printer companies that they can&#8217;t even toss in a cheap USB cable?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, some folks will say that, &#8220;Maybe the printer is too far away for the cable.&#8221; What. Ever. I just think that the printer companies are being cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: external hard drives come with USB cables. Some times when the drive uses both USB and Firewire it comes with <em>both<\/em> cables! Ditto for scanners, cameras, iPods, and other gizmos. So tell me, why are printer manufacturers behind the curve on this? Does anyone really know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been true for years: Computer printers do not come with cables. Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}