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[–] 138 points 1 year ago* (18 children)

I raise

edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I’ll see your raise, and up it:

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    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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    [–] 129 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Big keyboard jack, serial for mouse, parallel for printer

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Don't forget the serial input for gamepads and joysticks in the dedicated sound board for some reason

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Except that wasn't a serial port, it was midi, and the reason it was on the sound card was because the input was analog.

    Your joystick was just two fancy potentiometers, and your soundcard decoded the voltage on the middle legs into a position.

    Soundcards handled joysticks because they had the fastest ADCs.

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    In my day, the RJ-11 jack was for connecting the keyboard, not the phone line.

    The original Macintosh keyboard port

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    [–] 57 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The time of the classic "Keyboard missing. Press F1 to continue."

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You know that thing that you don't have? You should press buttons on it.

    Fuck you computer....

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Bitch

    please.

    (Kidding, you’re not a bitch and this isn’t a contest. But if it was…)

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Fairly certain my first computer used something like this for the keyboard. I did not have a mouse.

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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    "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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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Back in my day they weren't color coded.

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    PS/2

    No, not the PlayStation.....

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Look at you with your fancy ps/2 keyboard port. Where's my AT port and 9 pin serial mouse.

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    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)

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah well my first computer typed in cuneiform so get off my lawn you kids

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago
    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I remember a time when they weren't colour coded...

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