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PS/2 to USB adapter that won't emasculate my Intellimouse Explorer?

My laptop is USB-only. I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard and a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer that I use daily, and I had an adapter that allows me to plug these two PS/2 devices in and then plug ...

4 USB-C adapters that will make your ports way more useful

USB-C is everywhere, but that doesn't mean your ports are doing everything they could be doing. These adapters can ...
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A Microsoft developer explains how an adapter that converts USB connectors that were once attached to mice and keyboards into PS/2 connectors works

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 ...
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Will a PS2 Y-adapter let me use both my keyboard and mouse through one port?

It will if it's a "funky laptop port." The deal is that a keyboard uses one half the available pins, and the mouse uses the other half. If it's a normal port on the back of a PC, then the port itself ...