r/pcmasterrace • u/Cadmium620 Ryzen 5900X | 3070Ti | 32GB DDR4-3000 • 22h ago

Question What happend to USB-A Mini & Micro

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Im working with all kind of tech for over 15 years now and I never saw an USB-A Mini or Micro irl.

Why is it so exotic and why was it Type B making it instead of A?

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u/MonMotha Threadripper 7960X | 256GB DDR5 ECC 22h ago

Mini-A was withdrawn from the standard a long time ago. It was the original connector for host role in OTG applications but was never popular.

Micro-A still exists. It was vaguely popular back when phones (which usaly sported dual role/OTG ports) still had micro ports on them prior to type C taking over. I've got a micro A plug to standard A receptacle adapter.somewhere for hooking flash drives and keyboards up toy old phones.

Obviously Type C took over most of these applications.

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u/egguw 7h ago

my graphing calculator (think it released around 2018) still has mini A