Throwback tech: Taking a closer look at the original USB-to-PS/2 adapter
The pointer shipped with a then-standard PS/2 port but also worked with USB when using the included adapter. What you may not ...
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The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2
Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft ...
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Hack A PS/2 Keyboard Onto Your Pi Zero
For instance, a decent PS/2 to USB adapter will cost you as much as the Zero did, if not more. But if you just need to drive your Pi Zero from your old Model M (we hear you!) you’ve got to do it ...
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A Converter You Won’t Have: PS/2 Mouse To Serial Mouse
There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also an adapter to allow it to be used with the older PS/2 interface. And if you were to go back a few more years into the past ...
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A Microsoft developer explains how an adapter that converts USB connectors that were once attached to mice and keyboards into PS/2 connectors works
Raymond Chen, a developer at Microsoft, explains how an adapter that converts a USB Type-A terminal, which was once included with some mice and keyboards, into a PS/2 connector works. A note on ...