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 ...
The PS/2-style port was once about as ubiquitous on PCs as USB connectors are today, and more than a few of us accumulated a fair collection of keyboards and mice that sported the 6-pin mini-DIN plug.
Editor's take: One of the first upgrades I bought for my very first computer around the turn of the century was a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer. Its standout feature was IntelliEye, an optical ...
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 ...