Does an optical mouse lose its benefits if it is plugged into the PS2 port instead of USB? I have some vague memory that the ps2 port can only handle enough data for like 400 dpi or whatever the ...

Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to explain just how dumb the USB-to-PS/2 adapters that shipped with ...

My understanding of things (basic though it may be) is that PS2 and USB both consist of four wires. Clock, Data, Ground, and +5V.Now, I have a fairly basic device, a touchpad, actually, that's ...

USB ports aren't as simple as they look. ... Gone are the days of serial and PS/2 ports, and in their place is a relatively straightforward standard. Well, kind of. You see, ...

This includes the Digital Out (Optical) port on the rear of the unit and the single S400 iLink and two USB ports on the front of the system below the controller ports.

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.

The PIC takes care of detecting incoming raw signals from the PS/2 port, decodes them, and then writes it to the EEPROM, which we will then read from. Step 2 Open the USB to PS/2 Adapter.

USB first hit the market in 1996 with USB 1.0, intending to disrupt a market where the most commonly available I/O solution for anything more robust than a mouse or keyboard was the parallel port ...

When USB 1.0 launched, one of the ports it aimed to replace were PS/2 ports. Mice and keyboard had mechanically identical PS/2 plugs but would not work if plugged into the wrong one.

Apple also never embraced USB as a standard connector in its phones and tablets. After supporting the 30-pin docking connector from the third-generation iPod to the iPhone 4, it switched to yet ...

In the olden days, plugging something into your computer—a mouse, a printer, a hard drive—required a zoo of cables. Maybe you needed a PS/2 connector or a serial port, the Apple Desktop Bus ...

USB ports aren’t as simple as they look. ... Gone are the days of serial and PS/2 ports, and in their place is a relatively straightforward standard. Well, kind of. You see, ...