I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.
You can do anything at Zombocom
Submitted 11 hours ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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wjrii@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
affiliate@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
could you attach a picture of it? i want to be sure i don’t accidentally look at it by mistake
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
I may have recently retired my IBM->PS/2->USB daisy chain because I was gifted a modern mechanical keyboard…
wjrii@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well, I feel pretty deep into that rabbit hole, where I’ve even designed a couple of primitive circuit boards and hand-wired a bunch of keyboards. I also mess stains worth vintage stuff a bit.
This particular converter is programmable and meant to be used with a not mechanical 122-key terminal keyboard made by the company that took over IBM’s US keyboard factory, but it’s been hanging out with several DuPont wires shoved into it to connect it to a molex connector to test a different old board.
sundray@lemmus.org 10 hours ago
Somehow that VGA port became a cenobite.
Mim@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
It has such sights to show you.
cadekat@pawb.social 10 hours ago
The images that have traversed my wire span the entirety of sensation, from the darkest pits of depravity to the… Wait, no, that’s it.
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Plot of the next disney hellraiser movie
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Wait until you realize you only need 4 of those pins.
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
They routed the serial port to the other side of that header.
Aeri@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This reminds me of how my speakers work.
I have a 3.5mm jack for my speakers that converts to an RCA jack at the end, I also have T-intersection that goes between an amplifier and the RCA jack to intercept the signal and send it BACK to a set of desktop speakers.
Why? Bootleg surround sound, I know it’s just stereo, but hey, more speakers! Also it sounds better, and it can get louder.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
It may get lost, but does it go to eleven?
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 10 hours ago
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
😂 that’s great
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
“Welcome to Zombocom.”
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
You really can do a degree. We once manually patched the ribbon cable from one PowerBook screen into another totally different model and even different sized screen and got it to work mostly. I think it clipped off part of it but this was almost 20 years ago.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You should see some of the contraptions I’ve done (or had done) over the years. Like basically taking a a BGA FPGA off the board, soldering wires to the pads, and soldering the other ends to the balls of a different brand of FPGA to get something working while switching suppliers.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Please tell me you took pics.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The prototype exists - somewhere - in my office, but I can’t provide pictures, sorry.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
i have an old monitor that’s 25 years old. still works great, but i have to do this kinda shit to connect it
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
VGA stands for “vestigial garbage adapter” after all.
marcos@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Ouch, I just assumed it was the serial port and didn’t even look how it’s reversed. There must be all kinds of fun things you can do by hand-writing VGA data.
enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
The VGA connector is actually reversible! Once. given enough force. It also doesn’t actually work properly when installed upside down.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Had to rig up an rgb light strip like that last week
bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Did something similar with an IDE drive, when I couldn’t afford a new ribbon cable.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I’ve been there before.
Was trying to figure out how a still functional but LOOOOOOOOOONG since defunct companies sensor worked.
Asafum@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
I actually did the reverse when I was a kid with a VGA computer monitor lol my mom took my TV away as punishment but I still had my console (I’m forgetting which it was, probably n64) and I tried sticking the 3 color wires from the console into the wire for the monitor and it actually worked, but if I remember correctly it wasn’t exactly color correct lol
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
The lies of Big Wire have shackled users for too long!
TomMasz@piefed.social 9 hours ago
This disturbs me to look at. I don’t care if it works.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Actually a repost with another text. But still funny.
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 10 hours ago
“propagated” I see what you did there
causepix@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
I wonder… do we have any kind of cablegore or tech gore community around here?