Old monitor with PS/2 input?

[Montala]

Hi,

A friend of mine has an old (6 years or so) flat screen 19" monitor, which he insists has a PS/2 input.

He also seems confident that he can use the HDMI output from something like an Intel NUC to interface this, although probably without any sound!!

He also assures me that HDMI to PS/2 cables do actually exist, but a quick 'Google' search seems to imply otherwise.

I know that the obvious answer is to buy a new monitor, which is probably what he will end up doing in the end anyway, but I was just curious to learn if anyone has ever heard of, or come across, a monitor with this type of input socket?

I would add that we are not talking about a youngster here, but a 'senior citizen' who recently suffered from a stroke, and has some quite fixed ideas on this sort of thing, but I am trying help him as much as I can.

Thanks.

 

[Tom B]

I have no idea but speculatively speaking it would seem that the crossover window of PS/2 being commonplace and HDMI being present on anything other than very high-end screens is incredibly narrow. And that's not even considering why a monitor would have a keyboard/mouse input in the first place.

edit: A thought, could he possibly mean that he has previously connected his Playstation 2 to it?

 

[Montala]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your reply. It is of course the monitor which just has the PS/2 input (he says) as well as VGA (and possibly even a DVI) neither of which feature as 'standard' outputs on an Intel NUC box.

He is certainly not into gaming, and probably doesn't even know what a Playstation 2 is!

Edit: Again, just to clarify, by PS/2 input he means a PS/2 type mini 5 pin DIN socket, like the ones you used to find (and probably still do!) on mice & keyboards plugged in to. I have never seen anything like that on a monitor though!

 

[TallPaul_S]

Sounds like an S-video input.

S-Video

or

Looks similar to a PS/2 port to an untrained eye (which it sounds like he is!!).

It's analogue, so I very much doubt HDMI to S-video is possible.