VT-320 Hack+Tip for Smokers

From: Andreas Freiherr <Andreas.Freiherr_at_Vishay.com>
Date: Mon Mar 18 03:42:20 2002

Steve,

but then, you loose the important part:

Loboyko Steve wrote:
>
> Actually, there is very good documentation on this
> keyboard, and I was considering building a tiny PIC
> "black box" for this purpose - to convert PC
> scancodes to the 4800 baud TTL serial that the VT320
> expects. I wasn't going to convert each and every key,
> just the ASCII.

The missing F17..F20 keys are the main reason why I use a LK461 keyboard
with my PC (besides the issues with the German keyboard, where things
like the brackets for VMS directories or the backslash for Windoze paths
require the Alt-Gr key). The additional F-keys (no, that's definitely
not a bad word! ;-) are great if you use TPU and want to put a macro on
a free key. I think this must be an issue like the one with the missing
escape key for Teco users.

However, I do not have a pointer to the VT keyboard documentation and
would be interested in this information, so you can save me some
Googling if you have it at hand.

--
Andreas Freiherr
Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
http://www.vishay.com
Received on Mon Mar 18 2002 - 03:42:20 GMT

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