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    These little overclockable bastards ...

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      yellow 15-pin "game port"

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      This belongs on a sound card for some reason!! 😄

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      • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.deB [email protected]

        Many professional gamers still depend on them because they have lower latency than USB.

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        That's a myth that should die out. It used to be true, decades ago, but not anymore.

        The PS/2 protocol interrupts the CPU and sends a packet. USB has the CPU poll the connection and then gets the packet. However, the polling and clock rate of USB is so high that it can hit it several times before the PS/2 is done transmitting a single packet.

        NKRO is also no longer an issue in newer USB versions. You have to get a more expensive keyboard to make it work--cost of all the diodes adds up--but that was just as true of PS/2.

        Here's a Ben Eater video that goes over the details with an oscilloscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk

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        • jomiran@lemmy.mlJ [email protected]

          Big keyboard jack, serial for mouse, parallel for printer

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          Yes, this is where my PC master gaming started.

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            I didn't switch to a USB optical/laser mouse until 2014

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            You must like cleaning balls.

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              I’ll see your raise, and up it:

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              Please,

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                The time of the classic "Keyboard missing. Press F1 to continue."

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                  Typed! Back in my day we just got a wire that you had to lick in binary to tell the computer what to do.

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                  A wire!? We just got raw sand and had to scratch out a calculation ourselves.

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                    Please,

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                    I always see those videos where people give kids a walkman or a rotary phone and ask them to figure out what it is or how it works. I'm imagining some medieval merchant handing me an abacus and laughing because I can't figure it out.

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                    • johnnycanuck@lemmy.caJ [email protected]

                      PS/2 isn't vintage. I'm still using an adapter to connect my Microsoft Natural keyboard through USB.

                      Oh, wait...

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                      MattDamonAging.gif

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                        I’ll see your raise, and up it:

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                        My buddy still has one of those in his garage.

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                          "how old are you?"

                          "an old 486 with a 3.5 disk drive, turbo button, and pc lock"

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                            I used a PS/2 keyboard until like 2 years ago. At some point over 10 years ago I decided that I'd only replace it when it died. But it wasn't very good at dying, and 2years ago I finally had enough of the cheap rubbery switches and the fact that I couldn't press enough keys at the same time

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                              I always see those videos where people give kids a walkman or a rotary phone and ask them to figure out what it is or how it works. I'm imagining some medieval merchant handing me an abacus and laughing because I can't figure it out.

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                              It's little endian, so the beads on the far right are used to outnumber the big endian beads at the top on the woke left. After several computations, the middle section is just gone

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                                I'm still using that mouse, with a 9-pin to ps2 and a ps2 to usb

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                                there must be some noticeable latency on that

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                                  IIRC, that's electrically compatible with the smaller, more fragile PS/2 connector. The adapters are just wiring it down to the smaller connector (and maybe some impedance matching resistors?).

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                                  I did have a converter from this to a ps/2 connection when I got a newer computer.

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                                    Yes, this is where my PC master gaming started.

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                                    • jomiran@lemmy.mlJ [email protected]

                                      Big keyboard jack, serial for mouse, parallel for printer

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                                      Don't forget the serial input for gamepads and joysticks in the dedicated sound board for some reason

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                                        This belongs on a sound card for some reason!! 😄

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                                        Joystick and MIDI interface port

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                                        • ekzepp@lemmy.worldE [email protected]
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                                          Yyyyyup.

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