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… ...

And if you were to go back a few more years into the past, you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port.

Ive got a HP Optical Mouse, which im running under the standard MS mouse driver of Win2k.<BR><BR>Ive found that certain games crash when Im rotating my view or moving, and also the pointer ...

The open source HIDman adapter debuts, for interfacing modern USB peripherals with old PCs by emulating classic PS/2 keyboards and mice.

Not only does it allow you to use a PS/2 or USB keyboard and mouse, you can also hook up a PS2 light gun, a PS2 guitar, or a PS2 dancing mat, none of which are really supported on the Xbox 360 ...

Microsoft's solution for a USB mouse that might need to connect to a PS/2 port was to include an adapter in the box. The problem, according to Chen, is that "USB and PS/2 are completely different ...

This adapter is just a physical adapter, and the actual protocol conversion is performed by the mouse itself, which can change its behavior according to the USB and PS/2 signals.

I should also mention that these kinds of home-brew projects can run on the expensive side, as you’ll see with this useful $37 adapter that lets you use an ancient DB9 Apple mouse with a modern ...

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 ...