6 Nov
2011
6 Nov
'11
12:40 p.m.
On 6 Nov 2011 at 19:47, Tony Duell wrote:
How could a purely passive converter possibly work
with an original
Model M? Surely a USB port is not going to accept the clock/data lines
of a Type M on its differnetial data line pair?
It can't. But maybe I wasn't following the thread closely enough.
But a good active converter should be every bit as good as a native
USB keyboard.
Over at http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/prjhid.html, the AVR V-USB
project site, there are a number of nifty low-cost AVR projects for
various keyboard USB projects, including replacing the electronics of
a Model M with a custom board, adapting a Sparc Station keyboard, a
RS232C serial terminal keyboard, a C64 keyboard...to USB.
I've been thinking of doing one of the Model M changes myself--it
appears to be a reversible modification.
Just more grist for the mental mill.
--Chuck