I was just thinking this the other day. I also remember that you had to open the mouse to clean it because the little internal rollers got tangled in grossness.
That post seems to be missing.
HeapOfDogs 29 points 3 years ago
z00s 21 points 3 years ago
And the balls in the mice at school would get thrown around the room/lost/stolen until the computer teachers glued them shut so you couldn't clean the rollers and it was almost impossible to use them
IDontHavePantsOn 24 points 3 years ago
They had that softness that made them feel harmless, but their weight was unmistakably dangerous.
metallic_substance 1 point 3 years ago path: 0 6146274 6147061 6158461, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
limelight79 4 points 3 years ago
Our first mouse plugged into the serial port with a pass-through connector so you could still use the modem. There was a power adapter that plugged in there, too. Then you had to load the driver for the few programs that used it... though I think it also had a mode where it would work on a text screen, since so few program supported it. We didn't use it much.
This would have been on our IBM PC XT clone in the early 90s with 512k of RAM and a 5.25" floppy drive for storage. I don't think we used it with the PCjr we had before that, but I don't remember.
tiredofsametab 3 points 3 years ago
You were doing what with mouse balls?! Why would you even have those near your computer? even older dust
billwashere 2 points 3 years ago
And having to clean those rollers…
I_Miss_Daniel 4 points 3 years ago
Our TV gathunka knob didn't even have UHF.
dm_me_your_boobs 2 points 3 years ago
We had these too, I understood it.
the_post_of_tom_joad 5 points 3 years ago path: 0 6142700 6146214, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
BigBananaDealer 3 points 3 years ago
devil horns
SmoothLiquidation 9 points 3 years ago
My Apple ][ Plus was like that.
IndefiniteBen 6 points 3 years ago
iPad?
funkless_eck 8 points 3 years ago
C64
ZX Spectrum +3
7of9 1 point 3 years ago
The C64 could use a special (non-RS232) 9 pin D connector mouse, it worked for playing a breakout clone and nothing else (even Geos, the one place a mouse would have been actually useful!)
SupraMario 14 points 3 years ago
Apparently some of us are older than even the corpse....no mouse gang here.
Spuddlesv2 31 points 3 years ago
“Press play on tape”
CubbyTustard 4 points 3 years ago path: 0 6141707 6142887, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
VindictiveJudge 4 points 3 years ago
Huh. Toslink is in quotes like it's a coliquialism, but it's the actual name for that port.
AnActOfCreation 2 points 3 years ago
Maybe because it's sort of a brand name?
VindictiveJudge 2 points 3 years ago
Maybe? Or the creator might not have known it was the actual name since it looks like a brand name.
billwashere 4 points 3 years ago
Jesus I’ve used every port on this image. I’m gonna go order my casket now before it’s too late.
benderbeerman 3 points 3 years ago
SP/DIF can't hurt you, SP/DIF doesn't exist
EchoCranium 3 points 3 years ago
They're missing the BNC connector. Our lab has equipment that still uses them to plug in test probes.
billwashere 2 points 3 years ago
You mean AppleTalk?
Mandarbmax 2 points 3 years ago
Lol listing adb and svideo differently
purplemonkeymad 1 point 3 years ago
This picture was around when people using PCs would know what a ps/2 connector was. I'm not sure if the fact it calls usb3 future, ages the picture or makes me feel old for knowing a time before usb3.
hips_and_nips 6 points 3 years ago
Still is! I rock many DIN-5 cables in my home studio for MIDI. You’re not joking when you say “you could rotate it until you got it with no guessing”, I have to do that every damn time.
Cornelius_Wangenheim 11 points 3 years ago path: 0 6145787 6146034 6146299, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 0
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe 8 points 3 years ago
... :(
hakunawazo 19 points 3 years ago
I had to put my HDD in park position manually.
just_ducky_in_NH 16 points 3 years ago
I don’t think I’m on the chart. First computer was a RadioShack TRS-80. 4 kb of RAM, but I upgraded to a blazing 8 kb. Yee-haw! No floppy discs: my programs were saved on cassette tape using a cassette recorder connected to the computer. Those were the days.
perishthethought 2 points 3 years ago
Yah, and we had to wipe out the ram to load the program back in from the tape. And sometimes the volume wasn't set perfectly in the cassette player, so you lost all your work.
Good times?
teichflamme 9 points 3 years ago
Remember when you had to navigate through DOS to start your game?
ReluctantMuskrat 3 points 3 years ago
Remember when you needed a cassette tape for games?
Ataraxia 2 points 3 years ago
Remember when you had a quickload cartridge in the expansion slot but not every game would be able to use it? And when you blew the video card pulling the keyboard too hard since they were all hot connections? I still haven't fixed that.
BradleyUffner 3 points 3 years ago
Ahh the good old days when you had to flip dip switches on expansion cards to avoid IRQ and address conflicts.
billwashere 2 points 3 years ago
Freaking sound cards sucked back then.
ILikeBoobies 2 points 3 years ago
Raspberry pi 400 gang?
billwashere 1 point 3 years ago
I had a Coleco Adam so I might be close. I had to look up the Amstrad and that does look sweet. I upgraded to a C128 that did have a z80!!
Ok damn I feel old now.
chiliedogg 1 point 3 years ago
Our first mobile PC was a Compaq Luggable.
Thing had two 5 1/4" floppy drives, a 4 Mhz processor, an 8" monochrome green monitor, and weighed 30 pounds. The keyboard was the lid that covered the screen and the drives.
We eventually upgraded it to have a 10 meg hard drive instead of one of the floppies.
worldsayshi 14 points 3 years ago
Let's be real, usb-a is ancient now.
tigeruppercut 5 points 3 years ago
to be fair, Matt Damon ain't getting any younger
flambonkscious 2 points 3 years ago
It's a beautiful thing!
pineapplelover 2 points 3 years ago
Still widely used
MeaanBeaan 12 points 3 years ago
I'm a musician and I send Midi all over the place pretty regularly. 5 pin DIN connectors are very much still a thing.
ThePantser 12 points 3 years ago
This meme is already outdated, we have USB c now.
axellenium 12 points 3 years ago
I feel personally offended by naaaaah, jk, I’m just gonna say that the first pc my dad bought was a Commodore 64 and he let me play some games on it 🥰
axellenium 2 points 3 years ago
I never knew about rat race!, had to google it and it seems fun 😄
The one I remember the most was a game called tooth invaders, then Test Drive, and a game about space but I can’t remember its name.
doctorcrimson 11 points 3 years ago path: 0 6159361, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 4
billwashere 0 points 3 years ago
Ain’t nobody in their mid 30s ever even seen a DB9 serial port used for a mouse. I haven’t even used one for over 30 years and I AM as old as the crypt keeper.
Trollception 4 points 3 years ago
I'm 38 and I absolutely used a serial mouse and PS2 keyboard. Our first Pentium 120 used a serial mouse and PS2 keyboard from 1994 or so.
doctorcrimson 1 point 3 years ago path: 0 6159361 6163283 6164829, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
lightnegative 11 points 3 years ago
My first PC was a 286. Learned to program on it
I_Miss_Daniel 4 points 3 years ago
A tape CRC error :'(
Lilith_the_serpent 8 points 3 years ago
Apparently, I'm dead.
Rhaedas 5 points 3 years ago
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I_Miss_Daniel 3 points 3 years ago
Interlnk was free. Lost a chapter of my wife's book somewhere along the hallway when trusting it over a long serial cable.
AnUnusualRelic 8 points 3 years ago
Kids these days... 🙄
perviouslyiner 3 points 3 years ago
"Your computer came with a detachable keyboard?"
billwashere 1 point 3 years ago
I had access to a model III in middle school, does that count?
billwashere 7 points 3 years ago
Raise your hand if this looks familiar…
LOAD “*” ,8,1
inclementimmigrant 6 points 3 years ago
Back in my day we didn't have no fancy AT keyboard connector, the keyboard was part of the computer and that's how we like it.
VieuxQueb 3 points 3 years ago
Ha my days spent retyping hundreds of lines of code from a brick of a book that came with it to end up spitting out errors!
Those damn , and . Got confused a lot.
I had no tape backup or floppy drive so lost everything at power down.
Loads of fun tho !
tiredofsametab 5 points 3 years ago
Vic20 -> C64 -> Atari 2600 -> Amiga 500 -> 286 ... I actually don't even remember but it has a shitton of cores.
tiredofsametab 2 points 3 years ago
Hah, that brings back memories.
tiredofsametab 2 points 3 years ago
If you mean age, I'm in my 40s,.
RememberTheApollo_ 5 points 3 years ago
We’re not dead yet.
Faceman2K23 4 points 3 years ago
Thank you for actually calling it DE9!
A DB9 would have been 9 pins in a shell the size of a DB25 port!
MajorHavoc 8 points 3 years ago
We're highlanders, apparently. I guess we make the zombies look young.
scottywh 2 points 3 years ago
CGA / EGA had an identical 9 pin connector, FWIW
Editing to add: now that I'm thinking about it the connector pictured almost certainly is CGA / EGA since it's female and 9 pin serial ports are typically male.
Trollception 4 points 3 years ago
Your old in social media terms. Anyone over 35 is a literal dinosaur. I'm in the same boat.
ExfilBravo 4 points 3 years ago
DIN and RS232 gang!
phoenixz 4 points 3 years ago
Proud ex owner of an amiga 500, and amiga 2000...
Blew up quite a few Denise chips, iirc, with parents cables.
The 2000 had 2.5 megabytes, the 500 only 1megabyte, and it was fucking wonderful.
I now have 64gb and I still wonder if it's enough
Treczoks 1 point 3 years ago
No, the C64 (and other computers of the time) used a DSUB9 for the joystick connector. Top row 1-5: Up, Down, Left, Right, PaddleB; bottom row 6-9: Fire, +5V, GND, PaddleA. This was the common layout across all systems back then. The DSUB15 analog joystick port was later. And no, it was no serial port, just raw IO pins.
Davel23 1 point 3 years ago
They're both DE-9 connectors, but the C64 joystick port is not serial. Each direction on the stick and the fire button are connected to one of the pins on the connector, and a when direction (or the fire button) is pressed that pin has a voltage applied. So effectively it's a parallel connection.
In a serial connection one of the pins is "send" pin and another is "receive". The device then sends data as a bitstream over those two pins.
Treczoks 1 point 3 years ago
That's what I thought at first, too. The DIN connector on the right being the power supply connector, and the DSUB9 being the joystick port (one of them).
BUT: In every C64 model I've seen, there is the power switch right between the DIN and DSUB9. Which, in the photo, is not. So it is not a C64.
It could still be a joystick port, as DSUB9 was the most common joystick port form back then, before the DSUB15 commonly used on PCs for analog joysticks were a thing. Actually, serial ports back then used the DSUB25 connector. DSUB9 "reduced serial ports" came later.
Another common use of DSUB9 was for VGA before the three-row DSUB15. The DIN connector was commonly used for audio but also (composite) video.
My personal guess is that the bottom picture shows the video output of a computer, with the DSUB9 being an old-style VGA and the DIN being audio+composite video.
Immersive_Matthew 3 points 3 years ago
I am 50 (going on 29) and remember connections other than these in devices like the Commodore 64.
lemmefixdat4u 2 points 3 years ago
Ahhh, the good ol' days playing Wumpus - "I smell a Wumpus!" - or "Adventure" - "It is dark. You may be eaten by a grue." Went through rolls of paper in the old teletype.
almost1337 2 points 3 years ago
Our family's first computer was an Acer Anyware, 386 with a greyscale display. We had a serial trackball for it.
Faceman2K23 1 point 3 years ago
I love that most of the commenters are older than the oldest example in the meme.
thanks for using Leebra!
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