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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 09:16:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Cursed connectors that shouldn't exist:

   AT-connector mouse

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 09:19:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Explanation:
     The PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors are physically and electrically identical

     The AT and PS/2 keyboard connectors are identical in protocol, they just have a different connector, so you can easily swap between them with a passive adapter.

     There were plenty of PS/2 mice, but as far as I know no one ever made an AT-connector mouse, despite it being equally possible

   • Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:53:37 JST Tim 🎮

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     @foone I'm going to skip right past the horror of such a thing existing, and go right to pointing out that with that socket taken up by a mouse, you're also going to need to build a keyboard with a Centronics connector to match. Then, because your parallel port is taken, you just need a dot matrix printer you can hook up via PS/2 and you'll have the holy trinity of what the hell are you doing to this poor computer

   • CaptainArcee :win: (captainarcee@bitbang.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 11:55:09 JST CaptainArcee :win:

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     • Nanoraptor

     @foone don't give @NanoRaptor any ideas 😂