A friend just e-mailed me for PC advice and I want to make sure I'm giving the correct answer.

She needs to buy a new keyboard, but her PC is several years old and her current keyboard is the 5 pin type. Will she be able to buy any of the newer keyboards and use an adapter? Do most keyboards these days come with that adapter? If she has any free USB ports will that work okay? I think she still uses Windows 95.

Any PS/2 keyboard should work.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823131093 $10.

I agree, besides WIN95 has no USB support.

If you happen on a new USB keyboard (by design or mistake) then a USB Female to PS2 Male adapter (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1220387&CatId=469) should work just fine.

http://images.tigerdirect.com/skuimages/large/C250-3768-vendor-sp.jpg

I totally forgot about those. I have several and they work fine.