2 Apr
2003
2 Apr
'03
10:01 a.m.
Hello there,
Found your address through Google.
We are trying to connect a Vax 3850 using a LK201 keyboard and a ?mouse to
ps2 based KVM switch. Do you know of any products that can do the
translation?
All I can tell you is that the LK201 interface uses different voltage
levels to the PS/2 interface (The LK201 is essentially RS232 levels with
a 12V supply, the PS/2 is TTL levels with a 5V supply), and a totally
different protocol (the LK201 is 4800 buad async, the PS/2 is, IIRC, a
synchronous interfacem, with clock and data lines).
A translator between them is not going to be totally trivial therefore.
It would certainly need a microcontroller at each end.
-tony