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How on earth do I connect a Keyboard to this!?
severdhed:
i hate to tell you, but that style of keyboard connector was already outdated in 1999 or 2000. i built my first PC in the spring of 2000, and ps2 keyboards were the standard at that point in time...that has to be a 486 or early pentium class PC, which is not going to do you much good. judging by the pic, i'll guesss under 100mhz and probably 32mb of ram.
CathalDublin:
Wow thats old skool
Use to work in a shop selling pc parts in 2000/1.
never sold a motherboard with that connector(before ATX Standard, think its called AT) but used to sell hundreds of the adapters because you could no longer buy those keyboards.
Why not just use a USB keyboard/mouse?
Back when that was alive it was all serial mouses lol
Definitely pentium 2 at best i would imagine
severdhed:
i'm sure that an AT system like that will not support usb keyboard and mouse at the bios level. and since it cannot detect the keybaord, it will not boot
bkenobi:
If you could get into the bios, you could disable halt on keyboard error. BUT, you don't have a keyboard to change the setting. So, you need an AT keyboard to turn off the error so you don't need an AT keyboard. Get it! :cheers:
daywane:
I have about 5 of those style key boards. in my attic.
MAME is not the only EMU out there.
I am trying to think of the Old Arcade EMU I used (Vertical games mostly)
That old PC should run just fine.
Callus is one that comes to mind.
Vantage is the one I was thinking of.
Both use mame roms (56 or less I know work)