18 Jul
2002
18 Jul
'02
9:03 a.m.
Geoff Reed said:
There's a guy in the UK that is selling an adaptor
for PS/2 KB's/mice to
HP-HIL that is supposedly just wired through... is this
possible?!?!?! does anyone have the pinouts for the HP-HIL port?
Well, no. What that box ACTUALLY is (probably) is a thing HP sold with some
of their workstations (715 & others) that plugged into an RJ45-ish port (but
with the tab on the top rather then the sides, like HP-HIL) that broke out
into 1) PS/2 KB and mouse, and 2) HP-HIL connector. As far as I know, you
can't use that box on any arbitrary HP with an HIL port and get a working
keyboard and mouse.
On the other hand, I have serveral of those boxes, so if you get it and it
works I'd be very interested to know that :)
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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