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How on earth do I connect a Keyboard to this!?
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: Haterot on August 04, 2009, 11:24:26 am ---I don't see a serial port, which the OLD mice use to use.
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The two male connectors on the card below the video card are serial, the female 25 pin on the bottom is most likely parallel.
The round connector in the shadow (bottom right) -may- be a ps2 style mouse connector.
Octo:
Why not just take off the side panel and check the model #s on the MB and CPU? You're gonna need to get it dusted out inside anyway, so may as well. It'll be fairly clear when you open it whether or not it is worth working on. :burgerking:
IG-88:
SpyStyles Boot CD will work on that sucker. I've got it to work on several machines that old. If I remember correctly the adapter, AT-PS2, will work to let the bios think there is a keyboard hooked up. Vantage is a great one which is an option to install on the boot cd. The only problem you may run into is finding drivers for the audio card. If it's got an O/S on it already and everything is working I might consider using an old version of Mame. v36 w/game launcher. It will run most of the classics. ArcadeO/S might work too....
bkenobi:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on August 04, 2009, 06:40:54 pm ---The round connector in the shadow (bottom right) -may- be a ps2 style mouse connector.
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Nope, that's a really old token link network card. I ran coax in my parents house years ago to get a network. At the time, I really had no interest in messing with cat3 with all it's tiny wires and expensive connectors, so I went with cheap coax and twist-on Radio Shack connectors. It worked fine for years despite maxing out at 2mbps.
I could never figure out what the wide female connector was for, but I never used it. :dunno
polaris:
Slapaham
in fannying about with mine ive got mame and roms on there only to discover theres no sound card :banghead:
give yours the quick once over to see you have everything you need in there, its rather frustrating finding out after youve got it going that its no good for mame. :hissy: