Hi-Speed PS/2 Interface for Thumb Drives
Defective Storage (from Chaz)
A defective thumbdrive. It happens every now and then in the company, so I sent a new one to the user.A second defective thumbdrive. That’s pretty rare. Better make sure the user is actually plugging it in. Yep, it’s plugged in. Does the USB port work? Yep, the mouse works just fine.
A third defective thumbdrive. There’s something wrong. Better go check it out.
Yes… those are USB ports right beside the atrocity.
Somewhat Unclear, Maybe it’s the drugs, and More Support Stories – The Daily WTF
I haven’t appropriated anything from The Daily WTF in a long, long time, so when I was catching up on my RSS feeds this morning, I saw the beautiful picture above.
I’m not sure if this beats MY story of clearing a paper jam with a letter opener, but this was damned good.
December 29th, 2011 at 10:30 am
Not so much a comment as a question. Is it possible to use a PS/2 port to transfer data to a flash drive?
Why not?
This would be an excellent way for someone to circumvent company policy and copy data to a flash drive. I ran across this post searching for a way to make the above picture work. What if you could plug your keyboard into flash drive then plug the flash drive into a PS/2 port to record keystrokes without installing an application on the computer? The PS/2 port must be capable of power… is it capable of output?
March 14th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
I’m sure someone has done it and I can’t think of a good reason. The PS/2 port is just another I/O port with reading and writing. I would wonder about the speed but it seems to be fast enough to handle a mouse.
Damn you 1LKY3!! Now I’m going to have to look up the specs…
March 14th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
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