I need to make a cable

From: Wayne M. Smith <wmsmith_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sun May 21 20:51:37 2000

I need to make a keyboard cable for one of my Texas
Instruments Portable Professional Computers. It is a
proprietary format with a standard CPU keyboard
connector on one end and a PS/2 female connector on the
other. I have a keyboard cable from a Texas
Instruments Professional Computer, which has the CPU
connector (and a grid-type plug on the other end) and
is a five wire cable. I had hoped to splice a standard
PS/2 cable onto it, but upon opening one of these up I
see there are only 4 wires so I'm a wire short (even
assuming that the missing wire was in the same spot).
I could solder the five wires to the conector pins (I
have a really nice Hakko soldering station), but this
would be a mess as you need to mutilate the cable
connector in order to get to the pins.

My question is, does anyone know of a PS/2 type cable
that has connections to all 6 wires that I could splice
onto the keyboard cable I have?

-W
Received on Sun May 21 2000 - 20:51:37 BST