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I wonder which will happen first... USB 3.0 becomes standard or they finally stop putting PS/2, serial, and parallel ports on the motherboard backplate? USB 3.
by Xichekolas 18y ago
I wonder which will happen first... USB 3.0 becomes standard or they finally stop putting PS/2, serial, and parallel ports on the motherboard backplate?
USB 3.0 will probably win, but I can dream can't I?
- Dobbs 18y agoI like my PS/2 port thank you very much. I also understand that there are some useful uses of the serial ports still today, granted mostly in hardware hacking. Though I guess I could see the serial port become a pci card.
- jrockway 18y agoI like my PS/2 port thank you very much. [...] Though I guess I could see the serial port become a pci card. There are USB devices to emulate both of these.
- thwarted 18y agoThe best keyboard I've ever used is a beige (Compaq Partno 269513-006, google shows that it might still be available). It's heavy, must weigh like 2 or 3 lbs., and I didn't use it for a long time because it was awful dirty. Dishwasher fixed that. PS/2 connector of course, I have a PS/2-female-to-USB that I'm holding on to for when I get a machine without a PS/2 port. I've had mixed luck with USB-serial ports. Some of them work well and some of them are only recognized well on some machines.
- anamax 18y agoDell already sells systems with no PS2 or serial ports. (I don't think that mine has a parallel port either.)
- blackguardx 18y agoYou can pry my parallel port from my cold, dead fingers!