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fouc
14 days ago
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I knew about IBM PS/2, but I temporarily forgot for a moment and was feeling confused about using WordPerfect 5.1 with PlayStation 2 haha.
swores
14 days ago
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Meanwhile my mind first jumped to the old, pre-USB connector used for things like keyboards and mice, and was wondering what wizardry they had built to turn a PS2 keyboard into a complete text processor!
pigeons
14 days ago
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I always thought they were related because my PS/2's did use PS2 connectors.
mkl
14 days ago
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Yes, the PS/2 connector came from the PS/2 computer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port
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