Looking for a parallel keyboard

From: J.C. Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Tue Jan 13 15:32:10 2004

Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

>Hi
> Does anyone have a parallel out keyboard that they
>would like to sell to me?
>Dwight
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Does this mean there might be a small market for a PS/2 to parallel
keyboard converter? I can envision two modes, output only, where ASCII
data and strobe are provided when a key is pressed, and an I/O mode, so
that keyboard commands can be clocked back in.

Multi-key sequences (like F1, etc) would be converted to VT100 keyboard
sequences. Perhaps a few others terminal types would be supported, such
as the TVI950.

Information like Shift would affect the keycode, but would not be passed
along (well, I guess we could, with a mode switch. But normally not.
It'd just look like the keyboard data stream from a serial terminal).

    --jc
Received on Tue Jan 13 2004 - 15:32:10 GMT