I raise

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

I raise

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

Big keyboard jack, serial for mouse, parallel for printer

Don't forget the serial input for gamepads and joysticks in the dedicated sound board for some reason
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.
They didn't even use an ADC. They used 555 timers to produce a pulse. They measured the length of the pulse to determine the potentiometer position. Since there are 4 analog inputs, they typically used the 558 timer which is the quad version of the 555.
I got that reference. Fuck, I'm old.
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 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.
Bitch

please.
(Kidding, you’re not a bitch and this isn’t a contest. But if it was…)
Fairly certain my first computer used something like this for the keyboard. I did not have a mouse.

"do you know what ps/2 ports are?"
"holy cow, PlayStation 2? you must be AT LEAST 25!"
[dying inside intensifies]
"how old are you?"

I'm this old

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.
PS/2
No, not the PlayStation.....
I'm this old.

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

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 ;)
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)
You guys had keyboards? 
Yeah well my first computer typed in cuneiform so get off my lawn you kids
But the keyboard is the computer, mice haven’t been invented yet and where do I plug the tape deck in?
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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