If at first you don't connect

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• ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is that a USB to USB adapter?

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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• 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would anything work, even a keyboard or a mouse?

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• itisileclerk@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  USB -> Serial Serial -> Parallel Parallel -> Serial Serial -> Serial (25 pin -> 9 pin) Serial -> PS2 PS2 -> Serial (??? not sure) Serial -> USB

  Or in short USPSSPSSU adapter. Nice.

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not sure if you’re naming an adapter, or badly trying to coerce a cat to come closer.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Por que no los dos? 🤷

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  • Verat@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    PS2 -> serial seems correct, iirc their were serial mice.

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  0% chance this works at all.

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• JelleWho@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This should maybe have been listed on moeilijklastig.nl/verloopjes/

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What’s the transfer rate on that monstrosity?

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  • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    0 since it’s connected to a PS/2.

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      that green part is a ps2 to usb keyboard adapter that Microsoft provided with their keyboards at the time

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s not a PS/2, those didn’t come in laptop form. Maybe a Toughbook.

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  • new_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Probably 0.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      At most.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It wouldn’t work, at all.

    You’ve got USB to db9 serial, to db25 female, back down to db9 serial. At this point, since the chain started life as a USB to serial adapter, this should be a functional serial port.

    But then, it gets converted to PS/2 mouse. Then to AT keyboard, then back to PS/2 mouse, before becoming a USB port again.

    That’s not how it works.

    You see, he should have just plugged the dongle directly into the usb port on the laptop.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So you’re saying it’s now gigabit Ethernet.

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    • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do any of these adapters actually do any signal processing / transformation? I always assumed they were simply wiring crossovers. But I guess when the number of pins change there has to be an IC in there somewhere?

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    • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t be rude. He just forgot the USB serial interface.

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