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First post, by B24Fox

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This thread is dedicated to sharing/discussing the Pinouts, wiring and/or design of adapters that came bundled (or compatible replacements) for hardware like Mice, Keyboards, Game Controllers & more; and allowed them to be connected to one or more types of ports (i.e. PS/2 Mouse -to- Serial PC Port, Gameport Joystick -to- USB PC Port, and so on..)

This thread is a work in progress, and I encourage everyone that can contribute, to please do so! 😀
Hopefully it will earn it's place as a "Sticky".

I will try to keep the first few posts constantly up to date, so that all the fresh info is always easily accessible.

!!!IMPORTANT!!! Connectors numbering standard/consensus:
(so we won't get our "signals" mixed 😜)

SERIAL:

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PS/2:

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If you do not have a PS/2 Mouse socket mounted on your AT Motherboard, you can actually create one! 🥳
From 486 boards to Super Socket 7, they usually come with PS/2 pins (or pin connectors) on the board. You just need the cable adapter, to plug it in and mount on the case.
Most boards even have through-holes; so you can even solder yourself a connector directly on the board... but that's advisable only IF you also have an AT case with a cut-out for the PS/2 port (which is about as rare as hen's teeth). But they DO exist.

Anyway, here are all the pinouts from the boards I measured so far:
(on your mobo's PS/2 pin-connector you only need to find the Vcc(+5V) and GND pins; and based on those, you can deduce the rest of your connector's pins from my diagram)

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GAMEPORT:

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USB Type-A:

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Reply 1 of 6, by B24Fox

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Pinout for this Microsoft Mouse's SERIAL to PS/2 adapter cable, is as follows:

SERIAL male con.__________PS/2 male connector
Pin1 ------------to----------Pin5 [Mouse Clock]
Pin5------------to----------Pin3 [GND]
Pin8------------to----------Pin4 [+5V]
Pin9------------to----------Pin1 [Mouse Data]

This adapter 100% works with the Mice that look like in the picture, that have a Motorola [SC88715DW] chip, and 8+1 wires in the cable.
Also recognizable by the following stickers (not 100% certain on 2nd sticker):

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Reply 2 of 6, by B24Fox

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This PS/2 wheel mouse WORKS with all 3 of these SERIAL adapters.. yet, they are NOT the same!
I have tested them on a VIA MVP3 Mobo with Win98SE.

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Here are their pinouts:

Grey Adapter:
SERIAL fem. con.__________PS/2 female connector
Pin1 N.C.(Not Connected)# # # # # Pin1 [M.Data] strapped to PS/2 Pin5 [M.Clock]
Pin2------------to----------Pin2 [K.Data]
Pin3------------to----------Pin6 [K.Clock]
Pin4[strapped to SERIAL Pin6]
Pin5------------to----------Pin3 [GND]
Pin6[strapped to SERIAL Pin4]
Pin7------------to----------Pin4 [+5V]
Pin8 N.C.
Pin9 N.C.

Red Adapter (identical to Gray adapter, but missing the strap between PS/2 pins 1&5):
SERIAL fem. con.__________PS/2 female connector
Pin1 N.C.
Pin2------------to----------Pin2 [Keyboard Data]
Pin3------------to----------Pin6 [Keyboard Clock]
Pin4[strapped to SERIAL Pin6]
Pin5------------to----------Pin3 [GND]
Pin6[strapped to SERIAL Pin4]
Pin7------------to----------Pin4 [+5V]
Pin8 N.C.
Pin9 N.C.

Green Adapter:
SERIAL fem. con.__________PS/2 female connector
Pin1 N.C.
Pin2------------to----------Pin2 [Keyboard Data]
Pin3------------to----------Pin6 [Keyboard Clock]
Pin4[strapped to SER.Pin6]--to--Pin1 [M.Data]
Pin5------------to----------Pin3 [GND]
Pin6[strapped to SER.Pin4]--to--Pin1 [M.Data]
Pin7------------to----------Pin5 [M.Clock]
Pin8------------to----------Pin4 [+5V]
Pin9 N.C.

The Gray Adapter pinout was also confirmed working (by @Jason21), on this other mouse model:
2-button "Microsoft Serial-Mouse Port Compatible Mouse 2.0" P/N 58264
:

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MICROSOFT branded adapter but with different pinout, found here on the forum. Comes in 2 different colors. No confirmation yet on what revision mouse it works with, but it did NOT work with the P/N 58264 mouse in the previous picture
Thanks to @Jason21 and @DaveDDS for their contributions!
Re: Microsoft Serial Compatible Mouse only works in PS/2 mode
Re: Microsoft Mouse 2.1A not recognized

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Microsoft P.N.68666 Adapter(s):
SERIAL fem. con.__________PS/2 female connector
Pin2------------to----------Pin2 [Keyboard Data]
Pin3------------to----------Pin6 [Keyboard Clock]
Pin4[strapped to SER.Pin6]--to--Pin5 [Mouse Clock]
Pin5------------to----------Pin3 [GND]
Pin6[strapped to SER.Pin4]--to--Pin5 [Mouse Clock]
Pin7------------to----------Pin4 [+5V]

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An unconfirmed adapter, pinout from user @Jason21. Unknown what it works with.
Microsoft Serial Compatible Mouse only works in PS/2 mode
Unknown-compatibility Adapter:
SERIAL fem. con.____________PS/2 female connector
Pin1------------to-------------Pin1 [M.Data]
Pin2[strapped to SER.Pins5,7]--to--Pin4 [+5V]
Pin3[strapped to SER.Pin9]----to--Pin3 [GND]
Pin5[strapped to SER.Pins2,7]--to--Pin4 [+5V]
Pin6 ------------to------------Pin5 [M.Clock]
Pin7[strapped to SER.Pins2,5]--to--Pin4 [+5V]
Pin9[strapped to SER.Pin3]----to--Pin3 [GND]

Another unconfirmed Blue Adapter, pinout from user @luRaichu. Unknown what it works with.
Re: Microsoft Mouse 2.1A not recognized
Unknown Blue Adapter (with possibly unmapped "strap" between pins)
SERIAL fem. con.__________PS/2 female connector
Pin2------------to----------Pin1 [Mouse Data]
Pin3------------to----------Pin6 [Keyboard Clock]
Pin4------------to----------Pin4 [+5V]
Pin5------------to----------Pin3 [GND]
Pin7------------to----------Pin5 [Mouse Clock]

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Reply 3 of 6, by B24Fox

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This adapter is ONLY for the Microsoft SideWinder FreeStyle Pro and the SideWinder Precision Pro Joystick; and NOT for the SideWinder 3D Pro Plus(which looks absolutely identical), or the SideWinder 3D Pro, or anything else that didn't come bundled with it from the factory.

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This is the Pinout:

DB15 GamePort fem. con.______USB-A male connector
Pin1-------------to-----------Pin1 [+5V]
Pin14------------to-----------Pin2 [Data-]
Pin10------------to-----------Pin3 [Data+]
Pin4-------------to-----------Pin4 [GND]
Pin2[strapped to GAMEPORT Pin7]

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Pinout for this other adapter will be added later

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Reply 4 of 6, by B24Fox

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Place holder -- probably for keyboards adapters

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Reply 5 of 6, by B24Fox

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Finally, thanks to a friend, I have managed to map the pinout of the infamous 3dfx Voodoo3 3500 monitor adapter dongle ....thing

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Please be aware that some pins are electrically strapped together. I have listed them with a "+"between them.
Also everything marked "GND" is also electrically strapped together, along with all the metal outer-casings of all connectors.
Though from what I could see, the GND pins 1&2 on both S-VIDEO connectors, aren't soldered directly to their metal outer-casing, but are individually grounded all the way back inside the DVI connector (probably to reduce GROUND imbalances or interference).

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Reply 6 of 6, by B24Fox

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As always: if anyone has any adapters that they're willing to map out.. or have any solid info on compatibility; please don't hesitate to share!
All contributions are welcomed! 😀