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[-] cheet@infosec.pub 44 points 2 days ago

PS2 keyboards use interrupts rather than polling in USB, meaning every time a key is pressed the CPU stops what its doing to process it.

[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

And having to pick your IRQ when installing anything into your machine, and the weird bugs that could happen if you mucked it up.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I remember manually programming the cylinders and heads on a hdd into the bios. Kids these days got it easy

[-] obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I had a little book with the settings for almost every brand and model of hard drive that existed when published.

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