There will always be a special place in my heart for serial, where I can just jam in a paperclip and “guess around” with a voltimeter till I figure it out.
That USB to serial might have some diodes in it, preventing a magic smoke release. But after all the decades, the funny thing is the ground pins still go to ground.
USB to 9 pin rs232 serial (active), 9 pin to 25 pin serial, 25 to 9 pin serial, 9 pin serial to ps2, ps2 to AT, AT to ps2, ps2 to USB.
And 99% sure there’s no USB functionality there as that last adapter is for a mouse only.
There will always be a special place in my heart for serial, where I can just jam in a paperclip and “guess around” with a voltimeter till I figure it out.
I was going to say, that’s a lot of middle men to plug a USB drive into a USB port…
I was going to say…
What is not pictured is the USB storage being recognized.
That USB to serial might have some diodes in it, preventing a magic smoke release. But after all the decades, the funny thing is the ground pins still go to ground.