Which of These Gets Used The Most on Your Computer

[tgpo]

USB is used the most on my computer.

[Suntan]

Serial, for my UIRT2

-Suntan

[gitreel]

Usb in my computers.

[FT Shark]

Unless you have a mouse and keyboard that use USB, then the PS-2 is used all the time.

[lordsmurf]

#1 most used thing on my computer is the DELETE key.

[jimmalenko]

Unless you have a mouse and keyboard that use USB, then the PS-2 is used all the time.

I have mouse, scanner, printer and flashdisk all using USB all the time. Keyboard is my only PS-2.

[Baldrick]

ps2, mouse and keyboard.

[tekkieman]

USB - Mouse, printer, pencam, digican, scanner, thumb drive. All six ports used. Think I need to buy a USB hub!

[junkmalle]

#1 most used thing on my computer is the DELETE key.

DELETE is tne most used letter of the alphabet!

[Treebeard]

The most used thing on my computer is the 3 finger salute "ctrl+alt+delete". dang windows!

[dun4cheap]

You know, unless most of you use a usb keyboard and mouse, I would have to say the most used port on your computer other than the IDE would be the PS2 ports. Maybe I should sit back a re-evaluate this...

hehe

[The village idiot]

Used for what?

serial gets used for the mouse, keyboard, usb, and firewire...

parallel gets used for the data paths along the bus for memory, and pci, and agp, ata, floppy...

[tgpo]

5 people voted for AT??? Get a new computer!!!!

[SaSi]

5 people voted for AT??? Get a new computer!!!!

What on earth is "AT"

I voted PS/2 because mouse and kb are always conncted. The remaining USB devices get used a whole lot more than RS232 or parallel (which I have not used for over a year - perhaps it's time to disable them from the BIOS and releave 3 extra IRQs for the other devices. Things can get faster that way - thanks for the poll - it gave me a good idea )

[lordsmurf]

USB = printer, keyboard
PS/2 = mouse
Serial = random old stuff (cameras, VCR control, etc) RS232
Parrallel = zip drive
AT = aka ATAPI/ATA/IDE = hard drives, CD-ROM, DVD drives, etc
Firewire = aka IEEE1394 = microdrive reader
tgpo's Fire Wire = not touching this one

TGPO... what the hell do you mean "get a new computer" ? AT is the internal interface for drives. Hard to have a pc with no drives.

[tekkieman]

TGPO... what the hell do you mean "get a new computer" ? AT is the internal interface for drives. Hard to have a pc with no drives.

Macs use SCSI. (for HDD anyway)

[sterno]

AT = aka ATAPI/ATA/IDE = hard drives, CD-ROM, DVD drives, etc

Uh, no. AT is a motherboard/case standard that was around before ATX, and an "AT connector" generally refers to the old DIN-5 keyboard connector that everybody used before PS/2. Unless, of course, you have some kind of IDE-to-keyboard adapter that transfers data by pretending to be a person typing really really fast.

I use ADB more than any of those. It isn't listed. How strange.

[lordsmurf]

AT can be mentioned in many ways. Best to qualify it. Neither of us are actually wrong.

[tgpo]

"AT connector" generally refers to the old DIN-5 keyboard connector that everybody used before PS/2.

Bingo

[The village idiot]

AT can be mentioned in many ways. Best to qualify it. Neither of us are actually wrong.

Best to qualify for eveything. Is it internal or extrenal devices we are talking about? See my previous post that no one bothered to read.

[ZAPPER]

USB mouse to USB keyboard to USB port on back of PC
USB scanner to USB hub
USB webcam to USB hub
USB Sony CD250 still camera to USB hub(not really but I could, but why?)
USB Sony TRV330 camcorder to USB hub(not really but I could, but why?)
USB HP printer to hub (not really but I could, but why?)
USB track ball to hub(I thought that it would save desk space, but it hurts my hand to use)
USB 4 port hub to second USB port on back of PC
And I wonder why so many hardware conflicts.

[tgpo]

Isn't the HD stuff you are refering to called ATA?

[lordsmurf]

Isn't the HD stuff you are refering to called ATA?

No. AT/ATA/ATAPI/IDE/EIDE .... all pretty much the same interface.
If anything, SCSI is a dying breed. Externals were long ago replaced by USB and IEE1394. Internals are going the way of SATA.

[stiltman]

USB,

Scanner
Printer
Camera
Yocketpussp

[lordsmurf]

USB,

Yocketpussp

VP...vast penis

[burnman99]

Hmm lemme see (Shines Flashlight)
Front USB - Joystick
Rear USB - Printer
RJ-45 to Router
Audio Jack to External Boombox
Capture card Video In from Orion VCR
Technically have no keyboard hooked up. Have 4 way KVM switch hooked to both PS-2 slots which run to Wireless keyboard/mouse [Aside: I got this because i was lazy and thought i could just lie back with the keyboard and type; unfortunately i'm too lazy to even move the keyboard ]
I remember fondly when i had a Printer/CD burner/Zip Drive all hooked up at the same time through 1 LTP Port using Windows 95. Amazingly, the computer still works, though i've had to reformat several times...

Have fun stormin' the castle!

Rog

[ofbarea]

TGPO... what the hell do you mean "get a new computer" ? AT is the internal interface for drives. Hard to have a pc with no drives.

He’s talking about an AT keyboard connector. I have one PC with this connector. It has an AMD K6-III+, overclocked to 550 MHz, and with the help of a Realmagic Hollywood+ it can play DVD’s really smooth, but no newer games.

With the laptop most use port is USB (mouse and keyboard) and firewire (external DVD and HD). For the main PC the winner is the PS/2 port.

[jetfan]

I would say that USB is used the most on my sytem, 2 printers, a scanner,
keyboard and mouse.

[Marvingj]

Usb than Firewire no doubt.

[SaSi]

"AT connector" generally refers to the old DIN-5 keyboard connector that everybody used before PS/2.

Bingo

Well,

one of my computers use a PS/2 to 4pin din plug to connect an ancient IBM PC/AT keyboard. It lacks the fancy Windows keys, but the feeling is so great that I type faster on that.

On the other hand, I doubt the keyboard connector was called AT at all. In those days, the keyboard connector was the same between the original IBM PC, PC/XT and the AT. If I remember correctly, it was the first PS/2 machines that changed the keyboard connector size and that's how the plug type caught on as named PS/2.

So, if the PC/2 machines introduced the PS/2 keyboard connector, then the older kb connector should be named (if at all) PC not AT