9 Dec
2008
9 Dec
'08
6:59 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
Alexandre Souza wrote:
I always thought the cheap keyboard-specific PS/2-USB adapters (that
usually came with keyboards) are simple wiring jobs (give or take a
resistor) which get detected by the keyboard chip - it then switches
With PS/2-to-usb converters avaiable for $3?
Why???
Hmm, all the ones I've been finding are in the $20 range, modulo a couple
which are much cheaper but which claim to be for specific keyboard vendors
(I'd assume they rely on specific OS/vendor drivers, rather than adhering to
some kind of "USB keyboard standard") from USB to PS/2 mode. It's cheap, only adding a
bit of firmware to
the keyboard. (Pretty sure mice did this, too)
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Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem