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Don't forget the serial input for gamepads and joysticks in the dedicated sound board for some reason
Early PC only had 5 card slots, and the only jack on the motherboard was the keyboard. One slot is going to be used by a video card, one’s probably being used by a hard drive controller, one’s probably used by a parallel + serial card. Soundcards also included controller ports to try to save a slot.
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what the actual hell is that? a port connector for the borg?
It's a connector for an IBM 7000 series mainframe.
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(Apple IIe)
My parents got rid of mine without asking when I went to college in the 2000s
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In my day, the RJ-11 jack was for connecting the keyboard, not the phone line.
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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
Tried reading about endianness once. Pretty sure it can't be dumbed down enough for my brain.
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I wanna say my first PC that I used a was an Amiga with similar i/o as this: I remember that mouse connector vividly.
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Tried reading about endianness once. Pretty sure it can't be dumbed down enough for my brain.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You know how some languages write left-to-right, and some rught-to-left? Endianness is that, for numbers.
Or another analogy is dates: 2025/12/31 is big endian, 31/12/2025 is little endian. And 12/31/2025 is middle endian. Which makes no sense at all because the middle is, by definition, not an end.
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My parents got rid of mine without asking when I went to college in the 2000s
I don't remember what happened to ours. It got replaced by a 486/66 Windows 3.1 PC in 1994.
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Tried reading about endianness once. Pretty sure it can't be dumbed down enough for my brain.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Big Endian Little Endian: "1010" "1010" |||| |||| [1248] [8421] (sum the numbers corresponding to a 1) 1+4=5 8+2=10Depending on whether the order of binary comes from the left (Big Endian) or from the right (Little Endian), the binary number of "1010" can equal 5 or 10
(My original comment was buzzword nonsense though)
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Is your username a beyond all reason reference or a late Roman Empire reference?
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They all got bought by acer and turned into the shittiest brand-name PCs on the planet.
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I’ll see your raise, and up it:
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Please,
Young whippersnappers.
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In my day, the RJ-11 jack was for connecting the keyboard, not the phone line.
Okay that's something I had no idea about hahaha
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My parents got rid of mine without asking when I went to college in the 2000s
I just picked one up for $20. Missing the cable for the double disk drive though and it had a bad psu and I have no disks. Basically it's a money pit. But fun to mess with anyway.
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Don't forget the serial input for gamepads and joysticks in the dedicated sound board for some reason
Except that wasn't a serial port, it was midi, and the reason it was on the sound card was because the input was analog.
Your joystick was just two fancy potentiometers, and your soundcard decoded the voltage on the middle legs into a position.
Soundcards handled joysticks because they had the fastest ADCs.
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But the keyboard is the computer, mice haven’t been invented yet and where do I plug the tape deck in?
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You know how some languages write left-to-right, and some rught-to-left? Endianness is that, for numbers.
Or another analogy is dates: 2025/12/31 is big endian, 31/12/2025 is little endian. And 12/31/2025 is middle endian. Which makes no sense at all because the middle is, by definition, not an end.
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.
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PS/2
No, not the PlayStation.....
