Paganini wrote:
There are also still plenty of PS/2 keyboards out there.
Yep. My personal keyboard at the house is PS/2, all of my desktop computers at the house have PS/2, all of our work desktops have PS/2. They are still selling new PS/2 keyboards on NewEgg, Amazon, and Walmart! And incredibly easy to interface.
Paganini wrote:
both my TVs have composite inputs (!), and one of them is only 3 years old.
Same here. Another (relatively) easy one is VGA, which is practically all that works on our projectors here at the college. All of my monitors have a VGA port on them. Most of my desktop computers still have VGA either built in or on the video card, but all of them can be converted to VGA with just a DVI-to-VGA cable, not even a box! I also bought a VGA-to-HDMI box and it was very simple to use, and worked the first time with minimal issues.
Paganini wrote:
at least not without using an unpalatably powerful microcontroller to interface to it
I completely agree Paganini.
barnacle wrote:
The only practical way to get something into and out of a single board computer is via a terminal... which, for me, takes away the fun.
A lot of the fun I had making my board was in the video display side of things. I'm happy to have gone down that road, and succeeded.
Thanks!
Chad