playstation

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

<games, hardware> The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2).

The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets.

The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.

(http://scea.sony.com/playstation/).

FAQ (http://flex.net/users/cjayc/vgfa/system/sony_psx.txt). [Dates? Features?]

(2003-07-29)