26 Apr
2009
26 Apr
'09
8:08 p.m.
On 26 Apr 2009 at 17:50, Tony Duell wrote:
Sure. I was just pointing out there are plenty of real computers which do
have parallel/user ports.
But certainly possible with real computers like
PDP8s, PDP11s, PERQs,
HP9000/200s, machines with HPIB or HPIL ports (+ the right interface
converter), Commodores (most had user ports IIRC), BBC micros, etc,
etc, etc
It was meant as a jab to an earlier pro-Mac post about how PC's
aren't "real" computers. Alternatively, can't you see if the existing
keyboard is sending
anything using a logic probe?
Both approaches are valid, but I suggested the parallel port because
(1) it's easy to do and (2) if it's the keyboard that's gone south, one can use the parallel port option to check out the
rest of the
machine until the keyboard fault was islolated and repaired.
True.
-tony