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 ...

USB ports aren't as simple as they look. This guide decodes every symbol so you know exactly what each port can do for speed, power, and data.

Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to ...

It is unlikely then that you could take a modern USB-only device and an unholy chain of USB-to-PS/2-to-serial adapters, and have it work as a serial mouse. Want to run Windows 3.1 on a 386DX?

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 drives are ubiquitous with almost every form of technology on the market today, but the oldest generations of USB demonstrated a surprisingly limited use.

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.

What are the PS5 USB ports? In this simple guide let you know what the USB ports are on the PlayStation 5 console, what they do and what accessories connect to them.

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 Macs and Windows PCs of a couple of decades ago shared few common connectors. PCs had parallel ports for printers and PS/2 ports for keyboards and mice. Macs used SCSI connections for hard ...

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.

USB ports aren’t as simple as they look. This guide decodes every symbol so you know exactly what each port can do for speed, power, and data.