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Clare Snyder Clare Snyder is offline
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Default Computer keyboard and mouse question

On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 12:36:04 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:49:21 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 09/17/2018 02:58 PM, Tekkie® wrote:

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The round type are called DIN connectors. The flat type are called USB
connectors. USB is most common these days. They sent the wrong k/b and
mouse. Are there adapters in the box?


mini-DIN. Regular DIN describes the older PC keyboard (and cassette on
the original PCs) connectors.


So what is the difference between mini-DIN and PS/2?

PSD2 uses one of the variations of MiniDIN. S-Vid uses another
variation

BTW, one of the varieties of mini-DIN was used for S-video (which also
fell out too easily).