I tried to explain these ports to a salesperson at micro center, and they have me the dull cow stare.
I was looking at some PC’s at Best Buy and a salesman came up to try and give me the hard sell. I asked if I could buy the PC without Windows on it for a discount.
“How would you use your computer without Windows on it?”
“I’m going to install Linux”
“What’s that?”
“It’s an operating system”
Blank stare
“Like Windows or OS X…”
Blank Stare
Sigh “I already have a copy of Windows at home”
“Oh! Well I don’t think you can do that, no.”
Yeah well my first computer typed in cuneiform so get off my lawn you kids
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
Yyyyyup.
I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back…it’s been forever since I touched one
Ooh, I had a serial mouse (9 pin) from Microsoft of all companies, in the 90’s.
Damn good mouse.
I’ll see your raise, and up it:
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.
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
Young whippersnappers.
You kids don’t know how good you have it!
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:
Box o’ “useless” cables gang represent
Old enough
Yeah a 9 pin dsub. Still used widely in industry applications and other Fields. Edit: just saw that these were used for mouse or keyboard input, wth. This is truly old.
I also wonder, why do we marry the mouse to X11/<Wayland compositor>? Could ease the use of the tty tools too!
This reminds me when a mouse was an option not a requirement
still is
/i3gang
Not with some GUI tools, no. Even tabbing through buttons seems to be optional nowadays.
What kind of connector is this? I remember seeing them on 1970s audio equipment, maybe for mic in?
It’s an AT/ XT keyboard connector.
“do you know what ps/2 ports are?”
“holy cow, PlayStation 2? you must be AT LEAST 25!”
[dying inside intensifies]
IBM sure made naming pretty confusing aren’t they?
Not really? I mean it was a whole thing. OS/2, PS/2, I think maybe some PC/2? I can’t remember. Anyway it was all branded together.
missed opportunity for the mainframes to be “system/2” and not “system/360”
Ps/2 ports predated the PlayStation 2 by years. Sony made naming confusing in this case.
How can ports of a game predate the platform itself? That makes zero sense.
(/s)
I went to BestBuy looking for a PS/2 to USB adapter once, told this to a GeekSquad member. They took me to the PlayStation accessories.
I remember a time when they weren’t colour coded…
what the actual hell is that? a port connector for the borg?
It’s a connector for an IBM 7000 series mainframe.
So, yeah, basically.
You guys had keyboards?
Lots of blinkenlights. What does it do?
This old
