RS232 or Parallel port based keyboards and joysticks

From: Jeffrey H. Ingber <jingber_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon Dec 16 19:51:18 2002

Serial joysticks are not uncommon. M$ makes (made?) one or two
sidewinders that used the serial port. You can probably find some
E-bay.

Jeff

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 20:43, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Hi
> I usually use my laptop as a RS232 terminal. With a
> little software, you can even emulate a parallel keyboard
> from the printer port.
> Joysticks are a completely different issue. Some Joysticks
> are digital while others are analog. Most that I know of
> don't connect to RS232.
> Dwight
>
>
> >From: "Ram & Suganthi M." <ram_suganthi_at_hotmail.com>
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Does anyone know where I can get a keyboard that either plugs into an RS232
> >/ RS422 or Parallel Port? Ditto for a joystick. I want to connect a
> >keyboard to a transputer array for stand-alone operation and I already have
> >RS232 / Parallel ports on the array.
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Ram
> >
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Received on Mon Dec 16 2002 - 19:51:18 GMT

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