I didn't switch to a USB optical/laser mouse until 2014
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You guys have 6 pins? I only have 5!
ADB was superior.
I wanna say my first PC that I used a was an Amiga with similar i/o as this: I remember that mouse connector vividly.
You had an A3000? Those are not cheap today. Hell, Amigas in general are expensive.
I think so, but I really can't remember exactly. I mostly remember playing shufflepuck cafe on it when I was young. The next computer we had was a Macintosh 7100. Before getting a gateway years later.
I'm pretty sure I still have some 3.5" floppies from them.
These little overclockable bastards ...
I used a PS/2 keyboard until like 2 years ago. At some point over 10 years ago I decided that I'd only replace it when it died. But it wasn't very good at dying, and 2years ago I finally had enough of the cheap rubbery switches and the fact that I couldn't press enough keys at the same time
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Seems that way. Where are the serial and parallel ports?
I’m fine how are dog you?
Anybody else here play Oregon Trail on a teletype terminal? The school had 2 terminals in a small basement room that a few of us nerds could get access to for and hour or two a week, We would try to learn Basic, (with no one to teach us), and play Oregon Trail and get yelled at for going through some much thermal paper.......