From: Andrew Grebneff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A 3cm-long (rather short) cable with a USB connector on one end and a 6-pin serial plug on the other; the center of the top of the serial has a vertical plastic pin. This is flanked by 2 pairs of contact pins, with 2 more pins at the bottom between the crimps in the circular wall.
Like everyone says, it's a USB->PS/2 converter.
The funny thing is that I have the very opposite. They tend to include a PS/2->USB converter with USB mice for PCs so that they can be used with the PS/2 slot on older PCs, but I have never had one that goes the other way, like yours.
It would be interesting to test it with a newer Mac and OS X to see if it is at all possible to use a PS/2 keyboard and/or mouse through the USB port on a Mac.
Anyone tested ?
I have seen both, with the older variety being the USB->PS/2 converter. It used to be PS/2 was the standard (on PC's) and USB was the exception, so most mice were PS/2 units and included the USB->PS/2 converter. Now the standard is USB and PS/2 is being phased out so most mice (good ones) are USB units and ship with a PS/2->USB converter. Guess what I support for a living . . . and I hate M$ software.
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