I have a PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse that work quite well. The Dell OptiPlex 780 is an all around excellent PC, but two things it lacks are a) floppy drive by default and b) PS/2 ports.

We have an old dead PC in the basement (a Dell Dimension 8200). I was wondering what I could salvage from it. Dell Technical support said I could salvage the floppy drive from that and put it in an OptiPlex if it didn't come with it by default (most didn't). It also has PS/2 ports, and while I am aware that there are PS/2 to USB adapters and vice versa, I'd like to know is it possible to take PS/2 ports from an old PC and integrate them into a newer PC that didn't come with any?

Meaning: is it like a floppy drive where I can just drop it into the new PC and connect the IDE or SATA cable, or is there more fundamental support that needs to be built into a PC that would prevent you from just transferring the PS/2 ports from an old PC into a new one?

I am aware adapters exist, but again, I only want to know if it's possible to basically add native PS/2 support to newer PCs, using a direct connection to the motherboard, with no adapters.

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"is it possible to take PS/2 ports from an old PC and integrate them into a newer PC that didn't come with any?

No most of them are an integral part of the motherboard, unless they used an add in card to get ps2 ports which I have never seen on Dell pc's.

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