help me rig up this ps/2 connector.....green, yellow, red, and brown wires....but each to where?

PS/2 connectors were common. Raymond Chen, a developer at Microsoft, explains how an adapter that converts a USB Type-A terminal, which was once included with some mice and keyboards, into a PS/2 ...

And if you were to go back a few more years into the past, you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port.

Twenty Keyboards, Thirty Five Computers; or How to Straighten Pins on a PS/2 Connector Image via Wikipedia This is a guest post by GeekWife/Mom and Teacher, Travlyn Russell.

The Microsoft Mouse first shipped in 1983 with a DB-25 serial connector. This was later updated to a DE-9 serial connector, followed by a version compatible with PS/2 ports, and finally, the USB ...

The PS/2 connector in all its glory This is a clocked data protocol, so a waveform is generated on the data pin for each key pressed that can be compared to the clock pin to establish the timing ...

It also supports mice connected to serial ports and PS/2 connectors, and you can easily change the settings from a text editor without any special drivers.

Step 1 Circuitry The adapter, which connects the GND and VCC pin of the PS/2 connector with their respective pins on the USB Connector and CLK and DAT, pin to, respectively, D+ and D- pins.

Yes! The docking station has a PS/2 connector! Woo-hoo! Once I had that set up and running, every single one of the trackballs still worked.