Vintage
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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
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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...
My turn:
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You guys have 6 pins? I only have 5!
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Wait!! You had COLOURS?? I'm from the time before that!
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My age in fond memories:
I don't have long for this world...
Me too... my first code was for Commodore PET. Then I got an Amiga. Sad day when Commodore folded.
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Many professional gamers still depend on them because they have lower latency than USB.
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.
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Me too... my first code was for Commodore PET. Then I got an Amiga. Sad day when Commodore folded.
wrote last edited by [email protected]On the Amiga's 40th birthday I brought the old Amiga 500 out of storage to the dinner table and we had cake. Just realized I should do the same with the Atari ST, for more cake. I think my family tolerates me because of the cake.
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Fairly certain my first computer used something like this for the keyboard. I did not have a mouse.
wrote last edited by [email protected]IIRC, that's electrically compatible with the smaller, more fragile PS/2 connector. The adapters are just wiring it down to the smaller connector (and maybe some impedance matching resistors?).
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These little overclockable bastards ...
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This belongs on a sound card for some reason!!
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Many professional gamers still depend on them because they have lower latency than USB.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's a myth that should die out. It used to be true, decades ago, but not anymore.
The PS/2 protocol interrupts the CPU and sends a packet. USB has the CPU poll the connection and then gets the packet. However, the polling and clock rate of USB is so high that it can hit it several times before the PS/2 is done transmitting a single packet.
NKRO is also no longer an issue in newer USB versions. You have to get a more expensive keyboard to make it work--cost of all the diodes adds up--but that was just as true of PS/2.
Here's a Ben Eater video that goes over the details with an oscilloscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk
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Big keyboard jack, serial for mouse, parallel for printer
Yes, this is where my PC master gaming started.
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I didn't switch to a USB optical/laser mouse until 2014
You must like cleaning balls.
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I’ll see your raise, and up it:
Please,
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The time of the classic "Keyboard missing. Press F1 to continue."
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Typed! Back in my day we just got a wire that you had to lick in binary to tell the computer what to do.
A wire!? We just got raw sand and had to scratch out a calculation ourselves.
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Please,
I always see those videos where people give kids a walkman or a rotary phone and ask them to figure out what it is or how it works. I'm imagining some medieval merchant handing me an abacus and laughing because I can't figure it out.
