I remember a time when they weren’t colour coded…
I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back…it’s been forever since I touched one
I’ll see your raise, and up it:
Please,
I always see those videos where people give kids a walkman or a rotary phone and ask them to figure out what it is or how it works. I’m imagining some medieval merchant handing me an abacus and laughing because I can’t figure it out.
It’s little endian, so the beads on the far right are used to outnumber the big endian beads at the top on the woke left. After several computations, the middle section is just gone
Young whippersnappers.
Its on the side. You can kind of see it in your picture. I have a C64 within arms reach.
Bonus points if you had a mouse to use with GEOS:
Yyyyyup.
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“do you know what ps/2 ports are?”
“holy cow, PlayStation 2? you must be AT LEAST 25!”
[dying inside intensifies]
IBM sure made naming pretty confusing aren’t they?
Ps/2 ports predated the PlayStation 2 by years. Sony made naming confusing in this case.
How can ports of a game predate the platform itself? That makes zero sense.
(/s)
Old enough
Yeah a 9 pin dsub. Still used widely in industry applications and other Fields. Edit: just saw that these were used for mouse or keyboard input, wth. This is truly old.
I also wonder, why do we marry the mouse to X11/<Wayland compositor>? Could ease the use of the tty tools too!
what the actual hell is that? a port connector for the borg?
It’s a connector for an IBM 7000 series mainframe.
So, yeah, basically.
You guys had keyboards?
Lots of blinkenlights. What does it do?
In my day, the RJ-11 jack was for connecting the keyboard, not the phone line.
Okay that’s something I had no idea about hahaha
This old
I went to BestBuy looking for a PS/2 to USB adapter once, told this to a GeekSquad member. They took me to the PlayStation accessories.
Box o’ “useless” cables gang represent
Could be worse, could be that one.
Yeah well my first computer typed in cuneiform so get off my lawn you kids