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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 132 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

I raise

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

[–] TheRealShadeSlimmy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I’ll see your raise, and up it:

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] threeonefour@piefed.ca 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You kids don't know how good you have it!

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

My age in fond memories:

Commodore PET/CBM 4032

Acorn Atom

I don't have long for this world...

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ooh, I had a serial mouse (9 pin) from Microsoft of all companies, in the 90's.

Damn good mouse.

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[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] aliceblossom@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] LordTE7R1S@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I got that reference. Fuck, I'm old.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Please explain? I get that the chubby bird is speaking assembly, but I'm sure there's more to it than that?

[–] cheet 44 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

The original Macintosh keyboard port

[–] iglou@programming.dev 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay that's something I had no idea about hahaha

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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

Fuck you computer....

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 22 points 1 month 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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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 month 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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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 45 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The venerable DIN connector!

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[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 month 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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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 32 points 1 month ago (7 children)
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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

Mmmm - turbo button. Classic.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Back in my day they weren't color coded.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well they were pretty racist in spite of not seeing color

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Well, they could still see in black and white...

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[–] Quexotic 27 points 1 month ago (7 children)
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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

PS/2

No, not the PlayStation.....

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[–] halyihev@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month 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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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] lime@feddit.nu 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
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[–] YetAnotherMe@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month 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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[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month 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)

[–] darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago

You guys had keyboards?

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] madjo@feddit.nl 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] Malasaur@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My brother in Christ, I also used this

And I'm 17

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