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Playstation 2 and not the PS/2 port
by avipars 4y ago
Playstation 2 and not the PS/2 port
- dfxm12 4y agoWhat is the PS/2 port backwards compatible with?
- dfox 4y agoIt is the same weird backwards I2C-ish thing as an AT keyboard, only on smaller connector ;)
- zwieback 4y agoYeah, I clicked on it expecting something about the PS/2, not the PS2. Showing my age, I remember when the PS/2 was new.
- yamtaddle 4y agoI always kinda liked having AT for the keyboard. No confusing it with the mouse port. Nice and clunky and Serious feeling.
- zwieback 4y agoThose DIN connectors were used in the "Ueberspielkabel" of my childhood. Germany decided to use 5 pin DIN as stereo cables, two in two out with one ground.
- tpmx 4y agoAnd not the IBM PS/2. Speaking of: I just discovered that newly manufactured keyboards with PS/2 keyboard interfaces are now an oddity. I should have bought some "gaming keyboards" with PS/2 interfaces five years ago.
- dfox 4y agoNewly manufactured true AT and PS/2 keyboards were rare even 20 years ago. The cheap keyboards from even that time implement only the subset of behavior of true AT keyboard required for PC with OS that leaves the hardware in PC-like state. These keyboards tend to confuse the hell out from various 90's RISC workstations (SGI, DEC…) that also use PS/2 interface.