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I did have a converter from this to a ps/2 connection when I got a newer computer.
Should also work with a USB to PS/2 so you can use it on a modern machine if you want. Some modern keyboards are still backward compatible as well. I have a USB keyboard I can use on my old Din machines using two adapters.
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Runs on AMD Artix 7 FPGAMaybe I'm an idiot, but I ordered one when they announced it. I have 2 perfectly good C64s already but the CRT whine drives my dog and kid nuts, so looking forward to HDMI!
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And the newer ones then "removed" the color coding by doing one half of the circle in green, the other half in purple...
Those are just a combined port. You can use it for one or the other or use a splitter for both. The dual port was very popular on 90s laptops.
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I used a PS/2 keyboard until like 2 years ago. At some point over 10 years ago I decided that I'd only replace it when it died. But it wasn't very good at dying, and 2years ago I finally had enough of the cheap rubbery switches and the fact that I couldn't press enough keys at the same time
Those things just keep on going. I also have one that was in working condition as of a couple of years ago, which was the last time I needed a spare. It probably still works. That PS/2 rubberdome survived a bath in hot chocolate and then being completely disassembled so that I could clean out the goop that had leaked in between the membranes, and went on to handle several more years of daily wear and tear before I splurged on a New Model M.
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Don't forget the serial input for gamepads and joysticks in the dedicated sound board for some reason
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.
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what the actual hell is that? a port connector for the borg?
It's a connector for an IBM 7000 series mainframe.
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(Apple IIe)
My parents got rid of mine without asking when I went to college in the 2000s
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In my day, the RJ-11 jack was for connecting the keyboard, not the phone line.
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It's little endian, so the beads on the far right are used to outnumber the big endian beads at the top on the woke left. After several computations, the middle section is just gone
Tried reading about endianness once. Pretty sure it can't be dumbed down enough for my brain.
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I wanna say my first PC that I used a was an Amiga with similar i/o as this: I remember that mouse connector vividly.
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Tried reading about endianness once. Pretty sure it can't be dumbed down enough for my brain.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You know how some languages write left-to-right, and some rught-to-left? Endianness is that, for numbers.
Or another analogy is dates: 2025/12/31 is big endian, 31/12/2025 is little endian. And 12/31/2025 is middle endian. Which makes no sense at all because the middle is, by definition, not an end.
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My parents got rid of mine without asking when I went to college in the 2000s
I don't remember what happened to ours. It got replaced by a 486/66 Windows 3.1 PC in 1994.
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Tried reading about endianness once. Pretty sure it can't be dumbed down enough for my brain.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Big Endian Little Endian: "1010" "1010" |||| |||| [1248] [8421] (sum the numbers corresponding to a 1) 1+4=5 8+2=10Depending on whether the order of binary comes from the left (Big Endian) or from the right (Little Endian), the binary number of "1010" can equal 5 or 10
(My original comment was buzzword nonsense though)
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Is your username a beyond all reason reference or a late Roman Empire reference?
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They all got bought by acer and turned into the shittiest brand-name PCs on the planet.
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I’ll see your raise, and up it:
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Please,
Young whippersnappers.
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In my day, the RJ-11 jack was for connecting the keyboard, not the phone line.
Okay that's something I had no idea about hahaha
