>2016
>not using a PS/2 keyboard
all ps/2 keyboards have n-key rollover anons
USB is shit
Not all modern motherboards support PS/2 anymore. Besides, why would you ever press that many buttons at the same time? Even stenographers don't do that, and stenography works fine with 6KRO keyboards that are available these days over USB, some USB keyboards even have no KRO at all.
>>53623668
ps/2 doesnt have shared bus therefore less lag
>>53623638
Not really, my 14-year old Logitech Premium Desktop PS/2 kb causes that beep if you press 3 keys at the same time while most of the other keyboards are supposed to do that only after the fourth key.
My Model M wouldn't work with my MSI motherboard even though it had a PS/2 port so I had to get a USB converter.
>>53623679
Humans can't even detect that lag you fucking numbskull.
>>53623638
Yet somehow I am able to rise out of bed each day and carry on. This is a burden almost too great to bear indeed OP.
And thanks for letting me know the current yr. I like to be reminded of that daily. And that is why I come here. Because there is always someone starting out a thread informing us all what the current yr is. You and the team you are a member of are a service to the many that struggle each day calendarless. Kudos to you my friend. Kudos to you.
>>53623638
id use it if i had some old meme keyboard, but i have a $15 logitech one.
>>53623638
But I do, anon
>>53623638
Not all PS/2 keyboards have n-key rollover though, at least not my shitty old one
>>53623638
>all ps/2 keyboards have n-key rollover anons
No.
>>53623638
>All PS/2 keyboards have n-key rollover
That is false. I have a shit-ass HP keyboard hat did not have n-key rollover.
[ELI5] What is n-key rollover?
>>53623638
>p-please tell me it's okay to be poor
No
>>53623668
>not playing Mortal Kombat with your little brother on the same keyboard
>>53625169
> tfw I've emulated TMNT IV on ZNSES v0.96
> tfw we've beaten the game by playing on one keyboard and crossing our arms
I don't remember if we were too retarded to change the buttons or we just didn't care enough.
>>53623638
>n-key rollover
I have never needed this. Not once in my life.
I'm using an LG ps2 keyboard/mouse because a clean install of windows 7 did not recognize my new motherboards usb comtroller so I had to get ps2 input to navigate/install. I like it
>>53623638
>not using a PS/2 keyboard
wireless PS/2 keyboard when?
>>53623638
I honestly would but
>mitx
>mfw i'm using my ps2 keyboard because my previous membrane-dome crap shit the bed
maybe i should into the mech meme
>>53623638
>all ps/2 keyboard have n-key rollover
Mine doesn't
>>53624575
go back to r/eddit or something
Most don't: you need diodes across the switches to have a chance of supporting NKRO, iirc. Then you also need keyboard controller firmware support on top of that.
There's also no reason USB only supports 6KRO, but the Windows USB HID driver only supports 6 plus modifiers pressed at once by default (approximately). You can get around it simply by offering a composite device with several HID keyboard devices. Or use Linux.
Also, beware: PS/2 is not necessarily hot-swappable. Remove all power from the motherboard (including +5Vsb!) before removing/inserting to be sure. Many modern keyboard controllers have a polyfuse/spike protection on the PS/2 lines: but because it is not part of the spec because the spec is very, very old, many, particularly cheap ones, do not. You might get away with it 99.9% of the time, but I've seen it fry Pentium-II class motherboards. Whether that's still a problem depends on how cheap your mobo manufacturers were feeling; do you feel lucky, ECS?
>>53623638
They absolutely do not all have n-key rollover
>>53623686
You're supposed to plug it in when the computer is off
>>53623638
I am, model m master race reporting in
>>53628486
> not using the DIM5 one
pleb
>>53626737
>something
>>53623638
Why would you want PS2? PS4 is already out and soon PS4.
>>53623679
If it's giving you lag you notice then you have bigger problems. Shared bus lag is is measured in computer cycles.
>>53623686
>>53628486
Model M doesn't have NKey rollover though...
>>53623638
>2016
>not using the master of all computers the IBM PS/2 Model 77
>486DX2
>16MB RAM
>104MB Hard Disk
>>53625631
i could have used it many years ago playing two player games on the same keyboard
>>53630605
this
why even bother with new technology?
What is the cheapest possible keyboard with nkro?
>>53624679
>Implying usb keyboards are expensive
>He doesn't know that USB 3.0 doesn't have a polling rate and is in equal comparison with PS/2
That's why I use this supreme keyboard that costs like 10 EUR.
>tfw motherboard randomly decides not to POST with just a PS/2 keyboard plugged in.
I agree.
>>53635374
The windows login freezes when I have my ps2 KB plugged in, but I uses a ps2to USB adapter. But I love the feel of the ps2 KB
>>53623638
ps/2-compatible USB keyboard masterrace.
>>53628090
dat plug n play
>>53623638
>>all ps/2 keyboards have n-key rollover anons
incorrect. The Model M, notably, is 2KRO.
>>53623638
As much as I like PS2, you have to admit that one smaller connector is more convenient vs having TWO of those monstrosities just to work with something like a unicomp+tracball, or a WASD Code with a backlight with the bundle of cables that comes with
I would need a PS/2 to USB adapter, and that's rather pointless. Hell giving up my USB keyboard would be.
>>53623688
Yeah the human eye can only see at 35fps
