Yup. Windows 95 first release did not support it. In only appeared with Windows 95 OSR2 a year later, alongside FAT32.
In 1996 I got an IBM Pentium PC to review at PC Pro and it had these weird little rectangular ports on the back, with no pins, and a trident logo. I called IBM and asked what they were, and after bouncing around a dozen people until I got a techie, he told me they were "this new Intel thing" called a "unversal serial bus". I asked if it was some debugging kit, and he said no, it's meant to be this universal I/O standard.
Then I got another long game of phone tag at Intel where nobody press-facing had ever heard of it.
But nobody had any drivers for it, and there was nothing to plug into it, so it never even became a story.
I can't remember now if I even wrote about it, but probably it was a passing mention. If so, I think I probably gave it the first coverage in the world.
If Apple hadn't adopted USB for the iMac, especially the fruity colored iMacs, which then spawned hundreds if not thousands of brightly colored accessories, who knows if it ever would have taken off on the PC side of things. I still see the occasional motherboard with a PS/2 port :p
In 1996 I got an IBM Pentium PC to review at PC Pro and it had these weird little rectangular ports on the back, with no pins, and a trident logo. I called IBM and asked what they were, and after bouncing around a dozen people until I got a techie, he told me they were "this new Intel thing" called a "unversal serial bus". I asked if it was some debugging kit, and he said no, it's meant to be this universal I/O standard.
Then I got another long game of phone tag at Intel where nobody press-facing had ever heard of it.
But nobody had any drivers for it, and there was nothing to plug into it, so it never even became a story.
I can't remember now if I even wrote about it, but probably it was a passing mention. If so, I think I probably gave it the first coverage in the world.