Talk:Human interface device

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[edit] Digitizer

From Windows_CE "The defining characteristics of the pocket pc are the digitizer as the primary Human Interface Device and its extremely portable size." what in tarnation does this mean? Mathiastck 18:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Dunno, but it's gone now! Carl Turner 11:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup tag

Does anyone agree? This looks like an ugly mess to me! I've tidied up some of the list, and some of the start of the "Most operating systems..." paragraph. Opinions, please. EDIT: And can you have "native hardware"? I've not come across the term before. I've only heard of native software, as in native to the operating system, in that it runs without additional interpreters. I can see how to interpret "native hardware", but is it really defined? --Carl Turner 11:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I think that whole last sentence needs an overhaul. While it is true that old computers did not recognize keyboards on USB but did recognize PS/2, almost all of today's computers recognize both USB and PS/2, and even a few only recognize USB and not PS/2. This last case occurs if the computer did not ship with PS/2 at all and it is unlikely that an add-in PCI board would be recognized by the PC's BIOS. Lathe26 07:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I overhauled this sentence which I hope is better. Does this get us closer to getting rid of the cleanup tag? Lathe26 07:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
I added a "Components of the HID Protocol" section so that more technical people can learn more of the details. Perhaps we should put the more complex items that section as well and let the introduction paragraphs focus more on the high level descriptions to help the reader get orientated. Lathe26 07:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 3D motion controller

Was a spam page but has a couple nuggets of viable information. Adam McCormick 19:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nintendo Power Glove

Does this really belong in the list of HID devices? It is not HID compliant, it's not even USB... I conceede that it is a *device*, that can be used to *interface*, but nostalga aside, it doesn't belong on this list.

216.254.28.72 (talk) 20:12, 6 May 2008 (UTC)