1 Dec
2009
1 Dec
'09
1:07 p.m.
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Tony Duell wrote:
Intereasting. I wonder what its ID byte is.
Is it similar to the HP120/Hp150 keyboard issue (see a thread I started some
months back). Those keyboards are not HP-HIL of course, but they have
much the same interface as each other but a totally different matrix
layoug. I hacked an HP150 keyboard to use on my HP120...
I wonder why HP made an incompatible HP-HIL keyboard for the PC range.
Why not just use the standard one?
-tony
I have come across 2 HP-HIL keyoard types. The
HP46020 is the older one,
[...]
The HP46021 is the later one, and claims to e
compatible. The PCB in that
[...]
Then there is at least one more very common HP-HIL keyboard, the HP46030.
I have several of them, they are/were used on the HP Vectra PCs. And they
physically work with HP workstations, but the key codes don't match.