Vintage
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I'm this old.
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"how old are you?"
TURBO!!!
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I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
It was along the right side. I remember it helped to sit a little bit to the right, or angle the keyboard a bit, when playing a two player game, so that the leftmost player's joystick cord would reach.
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Tried reading about endianness once. Pretty sure it can't be dumbed down enough for my brain.
Ouch. I had to learn endianness once to solve a real life serialization bug. It sucked. I learned it for just long enough to correct the code for the corner cases involves, and then slept and forgot everything about it.
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I'm using a PS/2 keyboard and trackpad right now.
Adesso ACK-540-pw if anyone is interested.
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This one for me. Was born in 82.
Born in '88 and this was also my childhood. But to be fair, my parents bought the PC from Sears so it was probably an older, budget model. It ran Windows 3.1 and had a 16 MHz 386 with the Turbo button.
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You kids don't know how good you have it!
At least you have hands! I had to get my fabricated from the town blacksmith.
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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.
I thought sometimes they called them game ports (for the joystick.)
I reasoned if you are installing a sound card, you are probably doing some gaming, so it made sense to sort of bundle those together.
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They all got bought by acer and turned into the shittiest brand-name PCs on the planet.
Wasn’t gateway already shitty to begin with?
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"how old are you?"
Gotta have an LED display so everyone can see your speed in megahertz.
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Big keyboard jack, serial for mouse, parallel for printer
Nailed it! I was going to post the DIN-5 kb connector.
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Young whippersnappers.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Fun fact, the Romans would never have labeled their abacuses like this. It would have made calculating very difficult; they effectively worked with modern numbers in bead form, and then used the famous numeral system just to record the results.
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Please,
Don't buy copper from this guy, it's low-quality and your messenger will be treated with contempt.
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You kids don't know how good you have it!
Ooh ooh ooh?
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Explain this please.
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A yung'un huh
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Explain this please.
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The first three Macs had this jack in the front for the keyboard and a PC-like serial port in the back for the mouse. With the Mac SE and II, the switched to ADB, which looked like a PS/2 port, but you could daisy chain your mouse, keyboard, and other inputs like tablets or joysticks all into one jack in the back of the computer.
With the Mac SE and II, the switched to ADB, which looked like a PS/2 port, but you could daisy chain your mouse, keyboard, and other inputs like tablets or joysticks all into one jack in the back of the computer.
The port looks similar - both are mini-DIN - but ADB has four pins while PS/2 has six.
ADB was first introduced in 1986 on the Apple IIgs, and later was used in all Macs from the SE until the iMac. For the first few years there were two ADB ports, but in 1990 (maybe starting with the Mac IIsi?) they reduced it to one and started shipping keyboards with ports to daisy chain the mouse from.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Wow, 30 years later and I'm just learning this now. Thank you
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Born in '88 and this was also my childhood. But to be fair, my parents bought the PC from Sears so it was probably an older, budget model. It ran Windows 3.1 and had a 16 MHz 386 with the Turbo button.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My 286 had PS/2 ports instead of the obsolete DIN keyboard/serial mouse.
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