Microsoft's solution for a USB mouse that might need to connect to a PS/2 port was to include an adapter in the box. The problem, according to Chen, is that "USB and PS/2 are completely different ...

you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port. Those mice from a decade or more ago would have ...

The pointer shipped with a then-standard PS/2 port but also worked with USB when using the included adapter. What you may not know is that this small, green adapter was purely a mechanical component.

In the 1980s, most mice used a serial connection; however, a bus mouse was occasionally used to free up a serial port for another peripheral. The bus mouse connector looked like a PS/2 connector ...

A simple pigtail adapter is used to physically interface with a PS/2 port. The source is available if you need to pull off a similar hack.

The four-port, dual-monitor unit provides USB and PS/2 port for the console keyboard and mouse, plus an extra port a common access card (CAC) reader for each connected system. The CAC is the ...