I agree that change is generally bad for human beings and most of the time throughout history it has been pushed by evil forces. "Improvement" is really good at creating ever-widening gaps between people so for whom does it "improve", is certainly a good question to ask. Not for everyone that's for sure.
That said, although the ISA bus did stuck around for long, you'll notice that computer manufacturers always tried to find alternatives to it as more powerful CPUs came around, as it was an evident bottleneck. For example, Olivetti created a proprietary 16-bit interface, backward-compatible with 8-bit ISA cards, for their 8086-equipped M24 model from 1983. They did it again in 1987 for their 386-equipped M380 series by creating extended 32-bit expansion slots. IBM came up with MCA, the "Gang of Nine" came up with EISA, during the 486-era, VLB showed up as a standardized 32-bit expansion bus for cheaper systems, and then there was PCI. So then, what was the point of replacing the power connector for drives? It's the same 4 wires, same gauge, it's just an annoyance.
Bring back the 5.25 floppy I say.
Totally agree. I'm still mourning the fact that they don't manufacture diskettes anymore, a fact that I wasn't aware of until last year actually. They were unarguably superior to flash drives in a lot of ways. Of course storage capacity was their big disadvantage, but they were infinitely more rewarding and satisfying to use. Seeing a light flash on a USB flash drive, really does not come close to using the mechanism of a diskette drive and hearing the sounds of the disc spinning and the R/W heads moving. We were given senses and intelligence that makes us sensible to beauty, and the stimuli we get from using a flash drive, pales in comparison to the stimuli we got when using diskette drives. Back when I still had some, I remember knowing where the computer was in its boot sequence just by listening to the sound of the diskette drive, try doing that with a flash drive... Ahhh good times.
Why is that interesting? That PSU predates the SATA standard
I never thought about that, but maybe you're right hahaha. I could not find a release date online, but it does appear that they have been making this power supply for years. I found a 2004 forum post mentioning it, it's a Bestec ATX-250-12Z... I briefly had an HP DC5100 and if I remember correctly it's power supply had SATA connectors, so it surprises me that my computer, which came out years after that one, has an older-styled PSU. That's why I find it interesting.
But I don't need help with my PSU, I know now that it's not powerful enough for the graphics card. I'm temporarily using a 950W unit so power is not an issue. I need help regarding the 1280x1024 signal that the card puts out despite me choosing 1280x960 in the settings, and that's a problem because my monitor is incompatible with 1280x1024 signals. Guess I'll have to mess with the advanced settings huh, but there's a real possibility that my monitor blows up if I make one mistake. Here's a screenshot of the menu I'm talking about:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/rnt/rnw/img/enduser/aid_759_05.png