I am 50 (going on 29) and remember connections other than these in devices like the Commodore 64.
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That 5 pin DIN was on the older C64s for the AV port. I had a newer one as well and they switched to an 8 pin variant. C64s also used similar DIN connectors for the power supply and disk drive.
Damn you kids and your newfangled RS232 connectors.
Um Young kid is actually USB-C now and it's a mobile device 😆
I'm off the bottom of the chart.
Our family's first computer was an Acer Anyware, 386 with a greyscale display. We had a serial trackball for it.
Member when you edited your himem.sys and autoexec.bat to play your game?
I remember my school getting our first PCs in the library around the time the Columbia went up the first time. We thought the future was then. Little did we know...
Ahhh, the good ol' days playing Wumpus - "I smell a Wumpus!" - or "Adventure" - "It is dark. You may be eaten by a grue." Went through rolls of paper in the old teletype.