Vintage
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The computer mouse I still use today has a ball in it
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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.
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.
Considering MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, I have no idea what you're trying to say.
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I can tell that this particular port is more or less from the same time as the PS2 ports in the post's photo because of the color. The standardization of this port happened long before the standardization of colors to indicate the capabilities of said port. We mostly only see this in variously capable USB ports today. If I remember correctly this yellow color would have been used for a joystick or controller of some kind, but there may have been other ports with the same shape and pin configuration that would have different purposes.
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"do you know what ps/2 ports are?"
"holy cow, PlayStation 2? you must be AT LEAST 25!"
[dying inside intensifies]
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They've finally started removing them from boards, and I'm annoyed. I want my NKRO.
Most of them are internally connected via USB apparently so there's no difference. Not that the average e sports player would even notice.
I want my NKRO.
Which can be done over USB, cheap keyboards just aren't wired for it.
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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
Then you're not as old as me. 300 ohm ribbon was pretty common in Australia, especially on crappy bunny antennas. You'd need a 300/75 ohm matching balun before feeding it into the TV.
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Its on the side. You can kind of see it in your picture. I have a C64 within arms reach.
Bonus points if you had a mouse to use with GEOS:
I had a mouse like that on my Amiga 2000!
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The computer mouse I still use today has a ball in it
When was the last time you cleaned it out?
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You guys had keyboards?
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The computer mouse I still use today has a ball in it
Me too. As a toolmaker and engineer, space mice were a thing. But they were stupidly expensive and still are. I was unwilling to spend the money for one. So I use a ball mouse and I still do for when I need to do serious CAD work these days-- designing my next model steam engine.
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"do you know what ps/2 ports are?"
"holy cow, PlayStation 2? you must be AT LEAST 25!"
[dying inside intensifies]
IBM sure made naming pretty confusing aren't they?
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Years of cheaply made plastic membrane keyboards. I tried gaming on a membrane recently, and it was traumatizing.
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Anybody else here play Oregon Trail on a teletype terminal? The school had 2 terminals in a small basement room that a few of us nerds could get access to for and hour or two a week, We would try to learn Basic, (with no one to teach us), and play Oregon Trail and get yelled at for going through some much thermal paper.......
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I said the real two genders.
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This old
Nice, I have the Radio Shack rebadged one. It's murder on batteries though.
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The computer mouse I still use today has a ball in it
I have a 286 which connects through a COM (serial) port. Its mouse also has a ball since solid state lasers hadn't been invented
I'm very glad those mouses are maintainable and seem to last forever
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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
We had 300 ohm ribbon back when we had VHF TV. When we went to UHF in the '90s we also changed to coaxial cable
Coaxial cable works better at higher frequencies than 300 ohm, but needs shielding. 300 ohm doesn't need shielding as any wave that hits it hits phase and anti-phase at the same time and has no effect
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I said the real two genders.
There where three. The full din keyboard plug, serial for your mouse and that unholy thing on the back of your sound blaster on which you could connect a joystick.
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Nah, we got them fancy sliding tabs on those. I was talking about loading programs from tape LOL.
Ah so you're talking about the rigid floppies
