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Also the PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors. Before that mice were speaking to serial ports or required an add in card with a nonstandard port. the people buyin
by h2odragon 4y ago
Also the PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors. Before that mice were speaking to serial ports or required an add in card with a nonstandard port. the people buying PS/2's were often very concerned with mice, they'd seen them on TV and they wanted one.
- b06timmer 4y agoThat's why the were called PS/2 mice and keyboards. I still have a couple of serial-to-PS/2 adapters here somewhere.
- chasil 4y agoMost mice used an rs232 serial port.
- actionfromafar 4y ago"Bus" mice were popular too. [0] Cheaper to produce than RS2323 mice I think, but required the special interface card or motherboard support. The bus mice were semi-popular with Amiga owners because they were easily converted to Amigas. RS232 mice could be used with Amigas too, but only worked in Workbench programs which used the operating system drivers. Most Amiga games etc used the mouse hardware registers and the RS232 mouse would be ignored then. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_mouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_mouse
- f1shy 4y agoI think there was nothing more standard than RS232. You needed to add a "multi" board (joystick, parallel, rs232), yes, but that was absolutely standard.
- rjsw 4y agoThe Logitech mouse for the Olivetti M24/AT&T 6300 plugged into the keyboard.
- bluedino 4y agoSame physical port. Perfect for plugging into each other and having neither one work. Later on they color coded them (purple and green, some companies used orange?) I was always jealous of the Mac's ADB. You could daisy chain it, plug any device into any port, it was nice.