In recent years, many PC peripherals have adopted USB or Bluetooth to connect to PCs, but until USB became mainstream in the mid-2000s, connections via PS/2 connectors were common. Raymond Chen, a ...

The problem, according to Chen, is that "USB and PS/2 are completely different protocols that are not compatible in any way. The adapter was purely mechanical (passive).

Ok I just got my brand new coolermaster 210 and Gigabyte GA-8IEX.The Gigabyte has 2 USB 1.x connectors on the front and the gigabyte motherboard only has USB 2.0 connections.In both manuals they ...

I've got a USB mouse (MS) that came with a USB to PS/2 converter. It works fine hooked up to a PS/2 port. I run it through a KVM switch that is PS/2 and not USB so this is necessary. One of the ...

It is unlikely then that you could take a modern USB-only device and an unholy chain of USB-to-PS/2-to-serial adapters, and have it work as a serial mouse. Want to run Windows 3.1 on a 386DX?

The pointer shipped with a then-standard PS/2 port but also worked with USB when using the included adapter. What you may not know is that this small, ...

After hacking the plastic off a PS/2 mouse extension cord, he wired everything up according to the pinout. Programming the PIC to understand PS/2 commands was a little strange.