I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
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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.
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BTW, Commodore got bought out.
They are releasing C64 again.
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Ooh, I had a serial mouse (9 pin) from Microsoft of all companies, in the 90's.
Damn good mouse.
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I got that reference. Fuck, I'm old.
Please explain? I get that the chubby bird is speaking assembly, but I'm sure there's more to it than that?
PS2 keyboards use interrupts rather than polling in USB, meaning every time a key is pressed the CPU stops what its doing to process it.
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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
The first three Macs had this jack in the front for the keyboard and a PC-like serial port in the back for the mouse. With the Mac SE and II, the switched to ADB, which looked like a PS/2 port, but you could daisy chain your mouse, keyboard, and other inputs like tablets or joysticks all into one jack in the back of the computer.
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Bitch
please.
(Kidding, you’re not a bitch and this isn’t a contest. But if it was…)
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The time of the classic "Keyboard missing. Press F1 to continue."
You know that thing that you don't have? You should press buttons on it.
Fuck you computer....
Way back, there were some rare keyboard / motherboard combinations where the motherboard couldn't detect there was a keyboard attached unless a key was pressed on it. That message was for those people with those combinations.
You pressed F1 and the computer would be like "my bad, there is a keyboard there, thanks for your help", or rather it would just shut up and boot.
The message could have been different but it had to fit in a small amount of BIOS ROM, so we got stuck with the one that covered all the bases the best, and unfortunately, most people who saw it didn't actually have a keyboard plugged in, thus, irony.
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Fairly certain my first computer used something like this for the keyboard. I did not have a mouse.
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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]
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Back in my day they weren't color coded.
That's because color hadn't been invented yet and therefore people could only see in black and white. That's why old shows don't have color.
Well they were pretty racist in spite of not seeing color
Well, they could still see in black and white...
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Look at you with your fancy ps/2 keyboard port. Where's my AT port and 9 pin serial mouse.
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if I remember correctly my first PC had the bigger DIN connector for the keyboard and a DSUB9 for the mouse. Guess I'm old ;)
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lol PS/2 ports are the newer ones. There were larger AT ports and ADB ports in addition to the 25-pin(!) LPT port (printer mostly) and COM ports (random peripherals including early mice, pre ps/2)
Yeah well my first computer typed in cuneiform so get off my lawn you kids
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But the keyboard is the computer, mice haven’t been invented yet and where do I plug the tape deck in?
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I remember a time when they weren't colour coded...
Oh I first learned to type by typing "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs" over and over on a wireless keyboard.
Called a typewriter.
These aren't old. I had one in the early 2010s, it was handed down by a relative because my parents were poor.
I'm Gen Z
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