You guys had keyboards?
Lots of blinkenlights. What does it do?
This reminds me when a mouse was an option not a requirement
still is
/i3gang
Not with some GUI tools, no. Even tabbing through buttons seems to be optional nowadays.
What kind of connector is this? I remember seeing them on 1970s audio equipment, maybe for mic in?
It’s an AT/ XT keyboard connector.
Old enough
Yeah a 9 pin dsub. Still used widely in industry applications and other Fields. Edit: just saw that these were used for mouse or keyboard input, wth. This is truly old.
I also wonder, why do we marry the mouse to X11/<Wayland compositor>? Could ease the use of the tty tools too!
Yeah well my first computer typed in cuneiform so get off my lawn you kids
In my day, the RJ-11 jack was for connecting the keyboard, not the phone line.
Okay that’s something I had no idea about hahaha
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Could be worse, could be that one.
what the actual hell is that? a port connector for the borg?
It’s a connector for an IBM 7000 series mainframe.
So, yeah, basically.
I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back…it’s been forever since I touched one
I’ll see your raise, and up it:
Please,
Young whippersnappers.
You kids don’t know how good you have it!
I always see those videos where people give kids a walkman or a rotary phone and ask them to figure out what it is or how it works. I’m imagining some medieval merchant handing me an abacus and laughing because I can’t figure it out.
It’s little endian, so the beads on the far right are used to outnumber the big endian beads at the top on the woke left. After several computations, the middle section is just gone
Its on the side. You can kind of see it in your picture. I have a C64 within arms reach.
Bonus points if you had a mouse to use with GEOS:
Ooh, I had a serial mouse (9 pin) from Microsoft of all companies, in the 90’s.
Damn good mouse.
I remember a time when they weren’t colour coded…
Yyyyyup.
I tried to explain these ports to a salesperson at micro center, and they have me the dull cow stare.
I was looking at some PC’s at Best Buy and a salesman came up to try and give me the hard sell. I asked if I could buy the PC without Windows on it for a discount.
“How would you use your computer without Windows on it?”
“I’m going to install Linux”
“What’s that?”
“It’s an operating system”
Blank stare
“Like Windows or OS X…”
Blank Stare
Sigh “I already have a copy of Windows at home”
“Oh! Well I don’t think you can do that, no.”
This old
Box o’ “useless” cables gang represent
