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A Converter You Won’t Have: PS/2 Mouse To Serial Mouse
you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port. Those mice from a decade or more ago would have ...
The Register on MSN8d
The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2
Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft ...
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RS232 mouse
you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port. Those mice from a decade or more ago would have ...
Throwback tech: Taking a closer look at the original USB-to-PS/2 adapter
The pointer shipped with a then-standard PS/2 port but also worked with USB when using the included adapter. What you may not ...
PC Magazine6y
bus mouse
a bus mouse was occasionally used to free up a serial port for another peripheral. The bus mouse connector looked like a PS/2 connector, but the pins were not the same. See mouse and PS/2 port.
GIGAZINE4d
A Microsoft developer explains how an adapter that converts USB connectors that were once attached to mice and keyboards into PS/2 connectors works
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft ... that detects whether they are receiving signals from a USB port or a PS/2 connector and changes their behavior accordingly.' ...