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From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Apr 4 21:46:05 1999

I wrote:
> The AT keyboard interface protocol is really a pathetic design, though. It's
> a pain in the ass to deal with, and it's not well documented anywhere (even

Tony replied:
> The documentation is not brilliant, but you can figure out how to talk to an
> AT keyboard from the info in the TechRef if you have to. Not an ideal
> first project, though.

Having been there and done that, I maintain that sufficient documentation
is *NOT* present in the Tech Ref. It's a starting point, but they omit many
important details. I picked up other pieces from magazines, and ended up
having to reverse-engineer some of it with a logic analyzer.

Eric
Received on Sun Apr 04 1999 - 21:46:05 BST