Vintage
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Back in my day they weren't color coded.
That's because color hadn't been invented yet and therefore people could only see in black and white. That's why old shows don't have color.
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I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
wrote last edited by [email protected]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:
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I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
Oh yeah? I raise you stacks of perforated pages and tractor feed accordions
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I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
BTW, Commodore got bought out.
They are releasing C64 again.
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The venerable DIN connector!
That thing was a monster!
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Yeah well my first computer typed in cuneiform so get off my lawn you kids
Typed! Back in my day we just got a wire that you had to lick in binary to tell the computer what to do.
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I remember the adapters that went from the larger version of this to smaller as well as using the serial port.
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I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
wrote last edited by [email protected]My age in fond memories:
I don't have long for this world...
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I remember when mice were a neat new peripheral for use with graphical interfaces instead of typing in a command line.
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I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
I’ll see your raise, and up it:
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I’ll see your raise, and up it:
Represent!
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That's because color hadn't been invented yet and therefore people could only see in black and white. That's why old shows don't have color.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Well they were pretty racist in spite of not seeing color
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Many professional gamers still depend on them because they have lower latency than USB.
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Back in my day they weren't color coded.
Back in my day days didn't exist /s
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Big keyboard jack, serial for mouse, parallel for printer
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I didn't switch to a USB optical/laser mouse until 2014
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PS/2 isn't vintage. I'm still using an adapter to connect my Microsoft Natural keyboard through USB.
Oh, wait...
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Back in my day they weren't color coded.
And the newer ones then "removed" the color coding by doing one half of the circle in green, the other half in purple...
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Well they were pretty racist in spite of not seeing color
Well, they could still see in black and white...
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Ooh, I had a serial mouse (9 pin) from Microsoft of all companies, in the 90's.
Damn good mouse.
I'm still using that mouse, with a 9-pin to ps2 and a ps2 to usb
