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A Microsoft developer explains how an adapter that converts USB connectors that were once attached to mice and keyboards into PS/2 connectors works

In recent years, many PC peripherals have adopted USB or Bluetooth to connect to PCs, but until USB became mainstream in the mid-2000s, connections via PS/2 connectors were common. Raymond Chen, a ...
Ars Technica

Can anyone recommend a PS/2-to-USB adapter?

I have some generic PS/2-to-USB adapter; it has two PS/2 inputs (one for a keyboard, one for a mouse) and multiplexes them into a single USB plug.<BR><BR>It works okay, but not great: AFAICT trying to ...
Hackaday

A Converter You Won’t Have: PS/2 Mouse To Serial Mouse

When did you last buy a mouse? Did it have a little adapter in the box? There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also an adapter to allow it to be used with the older PS/2 ...
Ars Technica

Anybody hooked a USB Mac to a PS/2 KVM and lived to tell about it?

I want to get a new TiBook into an existing Belkin 4-port PS/2 KVM that currently has 3 PC's. Belkin's solution is to have me dump it for a new $200 model. Seems like I should be able to use a ...
Hackaday

Raspberry Pi Trackpad From Salvaged Trackpad Plus Arduino

Old laptops are easy to find and many have a trackpad with a PS/2 interface hardwired into the guts of the laptop. [Build It] wanted one of those trackpads for use in the DIY Raspberry Pi laptop he’s ...