When did you last buy a mouse? Did it have a little adapter in the box? There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also an adapter to allow it to be used with the older PS/2 ...

[Too Many Wires] has a custom computer he’s building. He wanted a mouse, but USB is a bit of a stretch for the fledgling computer. We might have opted for PS/2, but he went for something even older: a ...

I've got a USB mouse (MS) that came with a USB to PS/2 converter. It works fine hooked up to a PS/2 port. I run it through a KVM switch that is PS/2 and not USB so this is necessary. One of the boxen ...

I'm currently involved in a project to critically damp the vibrations of a washing machine using a variable damping coefficient. The way we're getting input from the system is through a serial port ...

A mouse that plugs into the serial port on a PC. Serial mice used to be the most common type, but were replaced by mice that use the PS/2 and USB ports. Contrast with bus mouse. See mouse. THIS ...