• VitabytesDev@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        I recently bought a motherboard with a N100 processor, that had two 3.0 USB Ports, two 3.1 USB Ports, an HDMI and a DisplayPort. Because of that I was surprised to learn that it had also two PS/2 ports for a keyboard and a mouse.

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      1 year ago

      My mechanical keyboard came with a USB-to-PS/2 adapter, and I use that instead of the USB one. Feels good

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    1 year ago

    Same as VGA, shit just works, don’t need to worry about drivers or OS. So if your server shits the bed, you don’t need to worry about these things not working so you can can figure what went wrong.

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    1 year ago

    If there is a fault in the PS2 device it literally breaks the rest of the computer.

    A little more than 15 years ago I had to fix my PS2 keyboard because it crashed everything. Not even a BSOD, just colors.

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        1 year ago

        No. It was when I was younger and I smacked the keyboard at some point. The whole computer crashed with random pixels all over the screen. I tried rebooting many times. I came to the conclusion the cable inside of the keyboard must have been slightly disconnected and pushed it further back into it, and my PC worked again.

        Computers are really resilient to permanent damage to be honest. I once dropped a screw into a running computer and it short-circuited with sparks and all. I was still able to boot it, but it was extremely slow. After a few reboots it was back to normal.

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    1 year ago

    I actually use a keyboard with that connector with a converter ( to USB ). It works pretty well.

    Fyi, I’m using a very old happy hacking keyboard my father gave me

    Here’s the picture of the keyboard I found on the Internet:

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    1 year ago

    My keyboard uses PS/2 and although I do have a PS/2 to USB adapter, i prefer using my computers PS/2 port because it means one more USB port can be used for something else.

    30+ years old and it runs flawlessly.