Vintage
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PS2 keyboards use interrupts rather than polling in USB, meaning every time a key is pressed the CPU stops what its doing to process it.
I'm wondering, is it still the case for mobos with Super IO?
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Check this out:
This was why I got into programming.
I still have the book:
It’s so cool:
Lemme know if you want to see more. I thought it’s awesome.
I have to find my UHf dongle, and it looks like I was playing Star Strike the last time, but I will get this running. I have the manual, after all.
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I worked at a place using a dot matrix printer… in 2013.
Yeah, if you can keep them running, they're surprisingly efficient. And they hardly ever jam. But all the printouts look like garbage and feel like you're trying to interpret ancient runes. When we got our first inkjet printer at home, I suddenly struggled to read anything from the ol' dot matrix.
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Old enough
"hey guys--"
JOYSTICK PORT!
"not what I'm called."
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I stand corrected. No idea what I was reading (several years ago), but whatever it was made it seem way more complicated. Maybe it was just an explanation from somebody who didn't know.
Likely it was being explained in the context of binary number representation as it is primarily important in computer architecture. If you're not already familiar with that then it was probably confusing explained in that context.
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These aren't old. I had one in the early 2010s, it was handed down by a relative because my parents were poor.
I'm Gen Z
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All the naysayers never used a Gateway AnyKey keyboard... their loss.
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My age in fond memories:
I don't have long for this world...
wrote last edited by [email protected]What is that Acorn? I don't remember the BBC having an "Acorn Bus Extension", and it looks too narrow to be a Master...
(nm, I found it online: Acorn Atom. I've never seen one in real life.)
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lol PS/2 ports are the newer ones. There were larger AT ports and ADB ports in addition to the 25-pin(!) LPT port (printer mostly) and COM ports (random peripherals including early mice, pre ps/2)
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I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
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I'm wondering, is it still the case for mobos with Super IO?
Super IO does still use interrupts as far as I know. The PS/2 protocol is interrupt-driven, so it's not possible to use a PS/2 keyboard or mouse without interrupts.
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Bitch
please.
(Kidding, you’re not a bitch and this isn’t a contest. But if it was…)
wrote last edited by [email protected]I don't recognize this... Is it some sort of RF switch for connecting a computer or game system to a TV while still passing through the antenna signal? Why does it have two cables coming out the side?
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All the naysayers never used a Gateway AnyKey keyboard... their loss.
Such nice keyboards. My Gateway 2000 was from 1991 and I believe they were pretty top notch at the time. It wasn't until later that they went to shit. Through all the years and the massive amounts of mods, it didn't fail until I retired it sometime in the mid to late 2000's and only because home routers now did what it could do...faster and for a lot let power. It's still in storage and I bet that if I powered it on today, it would boot.
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I don't recognize this... Is it some sort of RF switch for connecting a computer or game system to a TV while still passing through the antenna signal? Why does it have two cables coming out the side?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes, it's for an old game console or computer.
There were two common ways to connect to the TV, and this box supports both: Coaxial (still around of course) and that flat ribbon cable, which ends in two separate U shaped clips. The screws on the bottom are for the clips on the ribbon cable from the physical antenna likely mounted on the roof.
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You know that thing that you don't have? You should press buttons on it.
Fuck you computer....
The error message sounds bad, but it was actually a good thing. A better phrased error message might have been "Keyboard missing. Connect a keyboard and press F1 to continue." But, in the early days every byte mattered.
The system wouldn't work without a keyboard, and if you get further into the boot process you might not be able to shut down cleanly if you didn't have a keyboard attached. That error message gave you a chance to attach the keyboard, or to troubleshoot why the keyboard wasn't being properly detected (like the plug got bumped and wasn't making good contact anymore).
It was annoying when the lack of a keyboard was intentional. Like, you wanted to use the machine as a server. But, AFAIK you could disable this check if you knew the machine was going to be a server with no permanent keyboard attached.
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Yes, it's for an old game console or computer.
There were two common ways to connect to the TV, and this box supports both: Coaxial (still around of course) and that flat ribbon cable, which ends in two separate U shaped clips. The screws on the bottom are for the clips on the ribbon cable from the physical antenna likely mounted on the roof.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm from Australia and I don't think I ever saw a flat ribbon cable there. The RF cables in Australia mostly use Belling-Lee connectors (that you just push in) rather than F-type like in the USA (that you screw in), and that's been a standard since the 1920s, so I don't think there's anything that predates it in Australia.
Australia does use F connectors for cable internet, but that's mostly a legacy network now.
Edit: Apparently Australia did use them and I'm just not old enough lol
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At least you have hands! I had to get my fabricated from the town blacksmith.
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Old enough
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah a 9 pin dsub. Still used widely in industry applications and other Fields.
Edit: just saw that these were used for mouse or keyboard input, wth. This is truly old. -
I'm from Australia and I don't think I ever saw a flat ribbon cable there. The RF cables in Australia mostly use Belling-Lee connectors (that you just push in) rather than F-type like in the USA (that you screw in), and that's been a standard since the 1920s, so I don't think there's anything that predates it in Australia.
Australia does use F connectors for cable internet, but that's mostly a legacy network now.
Edit: Apparently Australia did use them and I'm just not old enough lol
Ah, sorry I hadn't even considered that it would be different in other places (just times) - I'm in the US, and those flat ones were present here at least as late as the 1980s and likely 1990s.
Cable Internet is very common in the US, in fact the most common kind. (2nd is DSL) So the F connectors (didn't know that name) are everywhere. Also still used for actual antenna connections.
I am not sure if I have ever seen a Belling-Lee, but RCA used to be extremely common here until HDMI took over that role. (In fact RCA is what is on the switch box above to connect to the 'computer') -
I don't recognize this... Is it some sort of RF switch for connecting a computer or game system to a TV while still passing through the antenna signal? Why does it have two cables coming out the side?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes, back when you could use a tube tv as a monitor over RF.
e: mine still works, and I’ve connected my ancient equipment to my newer flat televisions with it.
