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patrickl:


--- Quote from: RandyT on November 02, 2009, 01:17:02 pm ---
You do realize that you just bumped a 5 year old post  :D?

Much has changed since those days.  Well, except that the doom and gloom spreaders predicting the imminent demise of the PS/2 port are now shown to have been incorrect, as I predicted they would be so long ago.  :cheers:

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I don't know what underdeveloped area of the world you live in, but walk into a computerstore and try to buy a computer with a PS/2 connection and based on your results, I'll tell you.

In fact in the developed world, 5 years ago ps/2 ports were a rarity already.

RandyT:


--- Quote from: patrickl on November 02, 2009, 02:02:24 pm ---I don't know what underdeveloped area of the world you live in, but walk into a computerstore and try to buy a computer with a PS/2 connection and based on your results, I'll tell you.

In fact in the developed world, 5 years ago ps/2 ports were a rarity already.

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Computerstore...... :lol  Here in the third world country that is the U. S. of A, it's computer stores which are a rarity.

Give it up already.  Or do I have to post photos upon photos of Core2 Quad and Phenom systems still sporting the ports just to make you happy?  (please say no...this was absurd then, and it's more absurd now)



patrickl:

So 1 in a 100 computers still has it and then only the big budget machines. Wow.

I guess you would claim that floppy drives are here to stay too then ...

RandyT:


--- Quote from: patrickl on November 02, 2009, 05:08:02 pm ---So 1 in a 100 computers still has it and then only the big budget machines. Wow.

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1 in 100...  not even close.  You shouldn't assume you know the US market, being so far away and all.


--- Quote ---I guess you would claim that floppy drives are here to stay too then ...

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 :whap

protokatie:

One thing I have noticed with all of the new PC's I have seen (desktop, not laptop) is that they have the PS/2 connectors. The 300 dollar shitbomb I bought (brand new) a few months ago has them. I am GLAD that they did, as it frees up the more expensive USB ports for things that need the bandwidth. (The 300 dollar machine is my new fileserver and I use external USB drives, so port wastage is a concern to me).
They will go the way of the floppy once there is less demand for them than the cost difference of USB vs PS/2. I wish I can't remember fully, and maybe someone will enlighten me again, but the PS/2 system uses an already available bus, so the connectors are a very cheap add-on... Anyone with info on this?

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