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minus-squareinfeeeee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 month agoThis is the original blog post this article is based on: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250325-00/?p=110993 IIRC later other manufacturers copied this feature, and the final days of ps2 it was common that a “converter” was bundled with a mouse. Wikipedia has more detail about this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Conversion_between_PS/2_and_USB
This is the original blog post this article is based on: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250325-00/?p=110993
IIRC later other manufacturers copied this feature, and the final days of ps2 it was common that a “converter” was bundled with a mouse.
Wikipedia has more detail about this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Conversion_between_PS/2_and_USB