• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The PS2 (and AT) connectors keyboards and mice were largely using before USB were round…

    Arguably still better though because you could just rotate the plug until it went in instead of flipping it back and forth 5 times to get it to go in. And they also had more reliable indication for orientation.

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      you could just rotate the plug until it went in

      That was a good way to twist and bend up all the pins. Don’t you remember how fragile they were?

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        1 year ago

        I meant to add a warning saying I may have bent a few pins that way 😅

        Twist gently…

        😳

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      1 year ago

      They still are widely used. There are certain things that you can’t do on some motherboards without a PS2 device.