Archaeologists Excavate Ancient PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse Ports

Description

A two-panel meme in archaeology-documentary style. Top panel: three archaeologists kneel in a dirt excavation pit, brushing and scraping soil from stone remains. Bottom panel: a close-up of a hand delicately brushing red dirt away to reveal a 'discovered artifact' - a photoshopped panel with the classic purple PS/2 keyboard port and green PS/2 mouse port, each with its tiny icon. A small Bill Gates image is pasted in the bottom-right corner. The joke treats the once-ubiquitous pre-USB PS/2 connectors as ancient relics worthy of an archaeological dig, a nostalgia hit for anyone who remembers color-coded ports and the reboot required when you hot-plugged one

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RetroComputing TechNostalgia LegacyHardware Hardware TechHistory HardwareEvolution LegacyTech

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Carbon dating inconclusive - but the artifact clearly predates hot-plugging, so handle it only after a full reboot

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Carbon dating inconclusive - but the artifact clearly predates hot-plugging, so handle it only after a full reboot
Anonymous

The binary survived; its NetDDE dependency is probably in the next sediment layer.
dev_meme 2mo

These connectors have some advantages over USB, for example hardware interrupts (the signal is sent to the processor instantly, not through cyclic polling like in USB) and unlimited simultaneous key presses (n-key rollover).
1. @H3R3T1C 2mo
  
  only some???
@tema3210 2mo

This thing... It can interrupt CPU... Can we use it to bypass vanguard?
@H3R3T1C 2mo

USB is a pulling, of course the chip is who pull, but PS/2 for mouse and keyboard has lower latency in theory
1. @TarasPushkar24 2mo
  
  main reason im using it today
@Triolo 2mo

Пися пополам
@mohamed_023 2mo

This thing was nasty