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 ...

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 ...

I have some generic PS/2-to-USB adapter; it has two PS/2 inputs (one for a keyboard, one for a mouse) and multiplexes them into a single USB plug.<BR><BR>It works okay, but not great: AFAICT trying to ...

If you hate using the Xbox 360’s dual joystick controllers to play Gears of War, now’s your chance to pick up the XCM XFPS keyboard and mouse adapter for the 360. Not only does it allow you to use a ...

Does an optical mouse lose its benefits if it is plugged into the PS2 port instead of USB? I have some vague memory that the ps2 port can only handle enough data for like 400 dpi or whatever the term ...

[David] sent in his implementation of reading a PS/2 mouse with a PIC microcontroller and some LED displays. Of course, this follows hot on the heels of using a PIC with a PS/2 keyboard so now might ...

Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to explain ...