Jon Pareles wrote:Many new boxes do NOT include the PS/2 ports that your current keyboard and mouse connect to. Apart from economy, I like to keep to the PS/2 connection, simply because one has so many things one might want to use USB for (I have five flash drives plus the cellular modem). So see if the box has PS/2 as well as parallel.If you like your current keyboard you could probably keep it and plug it into the new box-- Patricia M. Godfrey priscamg@xxxxxxxx