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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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A Microsoft developer explains how an adapter that converts USB connectors that were once attached to mice and keyboards into PS/2 connectors works
In recent years, many PC peripherals have adopted USB or Bluetooth to connect to PCs, but until USB became mainstream in the mid-2000s, connections via PS/2 connectors were common. Raymond Chen, a ...
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A Converter You Won’t Have: PS/2 Mouse To Serial Mouse
When did you last buy a mouse? Did it have a little adapter in the box? 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 ...