Keyboard PS/2 to Parallel converter

On Monday 07 January 2008 11:54, Fred Cisin wrote: There was some project article in Byte way back when, by Steve Ciarcia, which provided a peecee-type keyboard input (AT rather than PS/2 but that shouldn't make that much difference). The circuit to deal with this was very simple and elegant, though I can't remember any more just how it was done. He didn't use a UART or similar, though, just a couple of MSI chips. And I remember thinking then how it wouldn't be all that hard to stuff an eprom between the output of that circuit (which gave you keycodes rather than characters) and have it spit out ASCII. Perhaps one of these days I'll run across the article again. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin