Vintage
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So is this a more classic case of Apple's usual tactic making their things needlessly different to move more product?
wrote last edited by [email protected]ADB slightly predated (and is arguably technically superior to) the PS/2 mouse and keyboard interfaces, but Apple patented it and the only companies that licensed it were those making Mac peripherals.
edit: i forgot, NeXT also used it.
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So is this a more classic case of Apple's usual tactic making their things needlessly different to move more product?
no it's a case of one set of ports being a decade or two older than the other
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Oh I first learned to type by typing "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs" over and over on a wireless keyboard.
Called a typewriter.
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Seems that way. Where are the serial and parallel ports?
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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.
I'd love to replace it but I'm not sure I could deal with CRT whine anymore.
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PS/2
No, not the PlayStation.....
Haha yeah I was hoping someone would make a PS/2 not PS2 joke!
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I'd love to replace it but I'm not sure I could deal with CRT whine anymore.
The video out is just an rca cable you can plug it into a more modern tv in the yellow video port. I'm using an lcd tv I have for older stuff.
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The video out is just an rca cable you can plug it into a more modern tv in the yellow video port. I'm using an lcd tv I have for older stuff.
Oh, shiny. That could do.
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It's a connector for an IBM 7000 series mainframe.
That’s so cool! Did you work on those back in the 60s?
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You had an A3000? Those are not cheap today. Hell, Amigas in general are expensive.
I think so, but I really can't remember exactly. I mostly remember playing shufflepuck cafe on it when I was young. The next computer we had was a Macintosh 7100. Before getting a gateway years later.
I'm pretty sure I still have some 3.5" floppies from them.
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if I remember correctly my first PC had the bigger DIN connector for the keyboard and a DSUB9 for the mouse. Guess I'm old
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I had a VIC-20, the predecessor to the C64...
Same here. I was so excited when we upgraded to a 128, and skipped the 64 entirely. That was some serious computing power.
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I got that reference. Fuck, I'm old.
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Look at you with your fancy ps/2 keyboard port. Where's my AT port and 9 pin serial mouse.
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I got that reference. Fuck, I'm old.
Please explain? I get that the chubby bird is speaking assembly, but I'm sure there's more to it than that?
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There are HDMI mods for the C64 as well.
Yep, that's how the new one is getting HDMI. They've collaborated with several of the major hardware guys and put it all together in a pretty package at a cheaper price then doing it myself. I already have a bunch of hardware, this is just a splurge.
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Please explain? I get that the chubby bird is speaking assembly, but I'm sure there's more to it than that?
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.
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Please explain? I get that the chubby bird is speaking assembly, but I'm sure there's more to it than that?
Markiplier farquad hybrid deep fried meme
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Please explain? I get that the chubby bird is speaking assembly, but I'm sure there's more to it than that?
Keyboard slows down the CPU because it gets priority over whatever the CPU is working on so the keyboard could cause your system to lag.
Back then all we had was single core CPUs.
