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 ...

When did you last buy a mouse? Did it have a little adapter in the box? There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also an adapter to allow it to be used with the older PS/2 ...

Nearly every barcode scanner I've run across is effectively a keyboard. I'd give it a try with one of the commonly available ones; worst case you can always return it.

Hacking for the Raspberry Pi Zero is a tricky proposition. Whatever you do, you’re working with a nominal five dollar board, so your hacks can’t be too highfalutin. For instance, a decent PS/2 to USB ...

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 ...