Mother Necessity In Action?

phaelinx said:
What's more odd, is look to the left of the NIC.. I see 2-4 USB ports......
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Yes, I believe that's been mentioned 7 or 8 times.

Anyway, the reason we don't laugh is because this isn't funny. It's just some guy sublimating sexual frustration by filling holes with pins with the 5-pack of adapters he bought 10 years ago at Best Buy.
 
Sorry.. did a quick skim through the first few pages and didn't see anything that stuck out. I did see it posted twice now that I did a quick look back.
 
I did try somethin of this genre: pugging the green (logitech) ps2-usb adaptor. In my ps2 port.

Well it works for logitech mouses... not all other mouses (got 2 generic that didn't work and one ms that did.)

So if even for mouses we have trouble...

Well I plugged my usb stick (one I had previously backup) and it didn't work. It did no damage onthe usb stick btw.

Ok so I didnt start from the comm port... but just the end is doubtfull so I,ll go take a dive in my old adaptors to see if I can't reproduce the whole string.
 
Serial -> PS/2 -> USB is possible :) Right? (I have both of these adapters, but nothing with serial ports now :p)

I'm trying to think of any other ghetto ways of adapting things together, as I know I've done it before. Can't remember though.
 
I'd be more impressed if there was a pic of the whole assembly hanging off their keychain.
 
Quality chain there... it would have been nice if at least the power could get through to light it up. No lights on the Sandisk Cruzer shows there isn't even enough power to get it going.

And it would need one hell of a weird driver written to communicate through those converters. Surely he missed a trick here? He should of had a USB Wireless Dongle on the end instead of that Flash Drive.

Reminds me of all the old serial connectors I have in a box somewhere. They used to live on my desk in weird connected art-forms like that.

Though nothing can beat a weird monster chain of BNC Coax 10base2 T-Piece connectors. I still have a beast created from about 30 of these somewhere in that same cupboard.
 
Still amusing, despite the neighboring USB sockets on the mobo.

There's a "Field of Dreams" joke to be made somewhere......
 
That reminds me of the Genesis tower. Something like SegaCD-Genesis-32x-GameGenie-Sonic&Knuckles-Sonic the Hedgehog

...here we go:
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GDstew4 said:
That reminds me of the Genesis tower. Something like SegaCD-Genesis-32x-GameGenie-Sonic&Knuckles-Sonic the Hedgehog

...here we go:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2007/01/genesistower.jpg[/img[/QUOTE]

This is much funnier than the original picture.
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Yes, nerd rage trumps humor. I've used some dongley messes before, but mine all worked. (For example, right now at home I have a Macintosh 128K acting as a serial terminal for my BSD box, via three dongles and two serial cables.)

joblo37pam said:
Ok, so it looks cool, but what's wrong with the USB ports two inches away? And if it were theoretically possible, who really wants to use a flash drive at the 12kbps that a parallel port is capable of?
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The last incarnation of parallel, ECP, could muster up to 2.5 MB/s, 20 Mb/s; which was faster than the 12 Mb/s USB 1.1 could do.

Parmenides said:
that looks like a vacuum cleaner.
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That was exactly my first reaction.
 
The last converter is a USB->Mouse PS2 converter that only works with mice that support signaling in PS2 format through their USB port. The circuitry is in the mouse and it won't work with anything else.

I don't even need to look any further, it can't possibly work.
 
I've had a change of heart, sorry for the double post but I realized I actually have everything needed for my own completely nonfunctional ghetto combo and figured it would be fun to add my own shot.

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CharonPDX said:
The last incarnation of parallel, ECP, could muster up to 2.5 MB/s, 20 Mb/s; which was faster than the 12 Mb/s USB 1.1 could do.
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But ECP gets that datarate using 8 data lines, rather than the single pair used by USB.
 
Its kind of funny but unnecessary.

There is a serial port. There is a PS2 port. Yet chose to use a parallel port/serial port/PS2/USB to make the connection.

I am not sure it would work. I am sure that if it does it will be SLOW!

For fun I once tried to load DSL onto a 100MB parallel zip drive and boot from it using a really old laptop.

It took almost 24 hours to actually complete the boot. I don't even think it was the 25Mhz (ya that's an "M") CPU, but the fact that it was going across a freaking parallel port that it took so long. There is a good reason why we don't use them anymore.
 
so what's the actual data transfer rate that occurs in this kind of "mix this and that to make it work" kind of gadget ?
 
Certainly, in theory, this could work with at least Windows XP. However, I call it a setup because:


  1. There are two empty PS2 ports. They could have used them with the adapter.
  2. There are possibly two or three USB ports next to the PS2 ports. Granted, without greater detail to make sure, we can't be sure as they could be Firewire.
In other words, there's no reason to assemble such a mess in the first place.
 
A woman out-of-the-know would look at that and comment on what a big appendage his computer has. :p
 
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