Legacy (Score: 2, Interesting) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-03-10 07:09 (#4M8C) Anybody remember computers in the late 90's? 2 9-pin RS-232 serial ports (older mice, modems, etc)2 PS/2 ports (keyboard/mouse)1 25-pin IEEE 1284 Parallel port (printers, storage devices, even ethernet adapters)Often a SCSI-1 port (scanners, external drives)Game ports (controllers)Sometimes even MIDI portsOften firewire ports.etc. And then a couple USB (v1.1) ports, which was the most useless of all... Nothing made for it, except maybe your new mouse using an adapter. Slower than parallel ports, lots of CPU-saping overhead. Couldn't boot off of it (for many years). etc. Re: Legacy (Score: 2, Interesting) by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-03-11 13:41 (#4QBP) Yes, the best part of USB was getting away from PS/2 ports. Those stupid pins kept breaking off. I lost many a good mouse to broken pins. USB is much sturdier of a connection,
Re: Legacy (Score: 2, Interesting) by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-03-11 13:41 (#4QBP) Yes, the best part of USB was getting away from PS/2 ports. Those stupid pins kept breaking off. I lost many a good mouse to broken pins. USB is much sturdier of a connection,