What's the point of USB keyboards+mice = Re: EPROM and EEPROM

I haev to agree with you. Somebody who can't plug the cable from a thing with keys on it into a socket marked 'keyboard' (or with a little picture of a keyboard nest to it) probably shouldn't own a computer :-) I thought the PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors were the same (6 pin mini-DIN). They also have essentially the same pinout, so nothing will be damaged if you plug the keybboard into the mouse connector of vice versa. On older machines it won't work if you do that, you'll get POST erross because it can't find the keyboard. How difficult is it to say (either in the error message or in the manual [1]) 'Check that the keyboard is not plugged into the mouse port? [1] Yes, OK, nothign these days comes with a manual... And how often are people going to be plugging/unplugging these things anyway. I don't maean people like me who are always hackign about with hardware, I mean most PC users? Actually, it;s just a little more code in the keyboard/mouse interface microcotnrolelr. The protocols are essentially the same, all the thing has to do is see whateach device identifies itself as and then route the data accordingly. -tony