New rule: If you see a piece of computer technology that predates the first time you turned on a PC, you are not allowed to touch it.
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Explanation for noobs: that green thing is a ps2 to usb adapter for usb mice to plug into old ps2 mouse ports. They make similar ones for keyboards too. Can be useful, but not for usb memory sticks. I don’t think they’re gonna be recognised or usable plugged into the mouse port.
no duh, what do you think the mouse picture meant.
Sherlock Holmes wasn’t that brite he just made sure to look around
Holmes wasn’t stupid. He just had Asperger’s, and they didn’t know coke was dangerous back then.
Plus he’s fictional.
Also his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ended up hating him.
No, he never liked him in the first place. Sherlock as meant to be an anti hero.
It was Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench.
lol
Sad Sad truth.
I’m in I.T. support, and i’ve had to explain to the @#*%%@ users why this does not work.
3 times so far this year.
Option 1 – Mini worklight. Compatible with electronic musical instruments control panels which have legacy port to plug in a PC keyboard. It lights the LED of the flash drive and nothing else
Option 2 – Not shown : opposite adapter, PS2 extension cable, and legacy KVM switch that won’t have real USB ports so required all this
actually dave, that would be a USB to ps2 adapter, not a ps2 to USB adapter. i love it when people try to sound smart.
I like how you think you’re sounding smart by trying to make him sound stupid, even though he was right. He made a simple mistake (it’s not ps2-usb, it’s usb-ps2) but it should have been blatantly obvious what he meant, and everything else was correct. It lets you plug a new usb mouse into an old ps2 port. It doesn’t work for memory sticks, and they also have those adapters for usb keyboards.
ding ding ding… Are you Ready to Rumble?
Myself, I’m still trying to hook my 8 kilobytes of core into a machine.
No Lynux, bad Lynux, MINIX for the win!
Thank you good sir or madam for introducing me to MINIX.
I am currently downloading 3.1.8
Core Memory? Holy Crap!
And furthermore, LOL!
You should see what happens when you use core to make a 1 Gig memory stick.
It doesn’t convert anything into usb. It’s a PS2 to PS2 through a USB connector adapter. The keyboard must be capable recognizing it’s not plugged into USB, and send PS2 signals.
When we talk about the adapter we’re talking about the cable type, not the signalling type.
And no the keyboard does not have to be aware, there’s a chip in the adapter which changes the signalling from USB to PS/2.
No, it IS a PS2 to USB adapter.
It plugs into a PS2 port to convert it to a USB port, but that does not work in reverse. (i.e. you can NOT plug it into a USB port to make it a PS2 port)
Normal people don’t really care what you call it, however.
It doesn’t convert USB to PS2 AND it doesn’t convert the other way around either! It’s just a simple bit of wiring.
The mouse you use with it is a mouse that supports both USB and PS2 protocols (not just any USB mouse will work). If the mouse detects that the green widget is connected, the mouse sends out PS2 signals, otherwise the mouse sends out USB signals.
The green thing doesn’t really convert anything other than the shape that the connector pins are arranged in.
I think it could work for memory sticks, or really any usb device. You can make an executable upon activation, maybe make it send keyboard or mouse instructions and it might work. I do wonder if a wireless mouse receive also might work here.
It’s PS/2 …
Heck, I’m still trying to figure out why my power strip plugged into itself doesn’t work
You mean that DOESN’T create infinite energy!?
It can’t think with portals.
Made me snicker out loud! Thanks, is an improvement over arguing about who’s right.
But one would think you had come up with a perpetual power machine. I’ll have to try it when I power off tonight/tomorrow a.m.
That’s absolutly a Kludgeston key !
I tried it once! It dosent worked…
Ha, there is no computer technology that predates when I first turned on a PC!
HAY! me too. I even antedate the PC!
My first pc was a 3.1
This is sort of a problem with USB. Most computer components either fit together or don’t, and they work if they do fit. Perhaps this is meant to fool data thieves?
Better explanation for noobs: thereifixedit – now with moar unattributed reposts from reddit!
The best part is where I took the photo myself and never gave permission to this site to use it.
The best part is where you complain in the comments section like one of us can fix it, instead of going to the contact link at the bottom of the page and talking to someone who can actually make a difference.
P.S. – Upon reading your comment, I downloaded the image.
Not sure if n00b, or if they just lost the cap to their thumbdrive.
The cap is on the back of thumbdrive.
Oh, hey, I got one of those (the green thingy, not the pen drive), but it never worked very well – the mouse seemed to behave erratically.
Woo-hoo! I’ve got one of the adapters in my desk’s junk drawer, but haven’t ever used it for anything. I can’t even recall now what piece of junk it came with. It’s just one of those things that you don’t throw away at first, because you might need it. Then over time it gets embedded into the mass of similar stuff in the drawer. And you just know that a week after you finally do throw it out, it’ll be something you really need and have to make a trip to town to buy.
Yes. certainly.
On the third hand, I find that if I own one tool or appliance, I have two, because i couldn’t find the first one.
It’s for plugging a USB keyboard into a computer that doesn’t have a USB port on it.
There are a few rare other uses, but that’s most likely where you got it from. I’ve got a couple dozen of them in a box of assorted loose parts, I don’t think I’ve ever actually needed to use one.
It’s green therefor it’s for a mouse, it even has a mouse icon on the PS/2 end. PS/2 for keyboards is color coded purple.
The “predates” comment suddenly made me look at the pic and think “This is like a cougar and a teen”
That’s dirty.
But I like where your minds at.
Actually, this might have worked for some “USB-sticks” which functions as keyboards instead of storage-devices, in order to force spam or malware onto a user that has configured his/her system to prevent the automatic start of software from USB storage-devices.
Such devices exist? Isn’t that like inventing a knife that only works if somebody slits their own throat?
At conventions and such they often distribute CD’s and USB-devices which, when stuck in a computer, automatically try to start up some demos or advertisements. But increasingly computers block “autorun” (the starting of programs from removable devices) to prevent the installation of viruses/trojans, it is becoming the default-setting.
Someone came up with something that physically looks like an USB-stick, and actually had a mountable file-volume, but also contained a device that functions as a USB-keyboard, which tries to open up a website containing the “message” the distributor wanted the receiver of the device to see.
And the first examples have been found that redirect not to a relatively harmless commercial website, but to a website trying to install all kinds of nasties (keyloggers, backdoors and more of that kind of fun).
Of course they do and people are stupid. Social engineering has proved that if you leave a bunch of USB memory sticks out on a cafe table where people would walk by or go to for lunch, they’ll pick it up. When they get back to the office they’ll plug the USB into their computer to see what’s on it. The computer assumes that all files and executables from USB input is safe and secure, so it allows the device to do whatever it wants with it. What’s worse, you could by a USB device from a store and on it is this executable as well. Say you bought a USB Nerf dart launcher. Same possible scenario could happen.
To make this even better, it needs one of those PS/2-to-Serial adapters (which worked with particular mice) on the end. “Hay lookit, I can plug my iPod into my 486! Wanna see?”
Do an epic conversion of USB>PS2>DIN5>PS2>Serial>Parallel. I guarantee it will work.
Don’t laugh, lad, I’ve probably still got one of those somewhere – along with nearly any other imaginable single or combination meant for jollying peripheral cables into connections – dawn of time road warriors had to, and believe me, there was a story behind every #&%^ one of them.
Wasn’t there a story on The Daily WTF about a user trying this, and frying the thumb drives? Search seems to be broken there, though.
Boy, I would so love to see the error message a PC would display if you actually tried to insert that thing.
“Boot sector error on mouse”
Snort out loud.
NSHA, Y U No stop making unfunny comments?!
I use to work at Frys electronics years ago. Was asked why his usb hub didnt work with this adapter. I laughed and I no longer work there.
I remember a guy I worked with in high school who tried to use this combination of adapters:
Serial mouse -> 9-pin male-female adapter -> 9-pin to 25-pin parallel adapter -> 25-pin to centronics adapter -> centronics plug spliced onto a 15-pin video plug -> VGA card out.
He was genuinely surprised at all the smoke.
“I remember a guy”
Yeah right…
I have a few thousand of those adapters. wonder if i can sell them as replacement caps for USB sticks..
I was talking to a woman this morning who worked on the first computer in Canada. It was in Montreal and took up an entire floor. She spent an extended period teaching site supervisors in logging camps how to enter data & send it to head office. These days she says she doesn’t care if she never sees another computer.
“I was talking to a woman…”
Surely you jest.