17 Mar
2002
17 Mar
'02
7:42 p.m.
Steve,
but then, you loose the important part:
Loboyko Steve wrote:
Actually, there is very good documentation on this
keyboard, and I was considering building a tiny PIC
"black box" for this purpose - to convert PC
scancodes to the 4800 baud TTL serial that the VT320
expects. I wasn't going to convert each and every key,
just the ASCII.
The missing F17..F20 keys are the main reason why I use a LK461 keyboard
with my PC (besides the issues with the German keyboard, where things
like the brackets for VMS directories or the backslash for Windoze paths
require the Alt-Gr key). The additional F-keys (no, that's definitely
not a bad word! ;-) are great if you use TPU and want to put a macro on
a free key. I think this must be an issue like the one with the missing
escape key for Teco users.
However, I do not have a pointer to the VT keyboard documentation and
would be interested in this information, so you can save me some
Googling if you have it at hand.
--
Andreas Freiherr
Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
http://www.vishay.com