Reply 20 of 33, by Ariakos
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Tell you the truth now I'm beginning to see the wisdom behind building a Socket 7 Pentium machine as an all-around retro rig... it's those damn mouse and keyboard. With Pentium machine you can easily use PS/2 (or USB in Windows) but with 386 and 486... they both rely heavily on DIN6 for keyboard and COM for mouse connection. At one point I remember I had one DIN6 keyboard, I guess I left it at my parents' attic (or sold it, can't remember). Same with serial mouse: had one once, eventually thrashed it.
I already ordered couple of cheap DIN6 to PS/2 adapters from eBay. I hope they work out-of-the-box so I can just plug in a PS/2 keyboard. Mouse is trickier. I've browsed Vogons forum and apparently if you don't have an integrated PS/2 connection in the motherboard or specific kind of serial-PS/2 combo mouse you are pretty much stuck to old serial mouses (or you have to MacGyver a PS/2 port to the mobo like feipoa did 🤣 ).