18 Feb
2004
18 Feb
'04
11:45 a.m.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, J.C. Wren wrote:
With wires :) I don't have a copy around, but
the original XT and
AT Technical guides have the schematics for the keyboard. I'm not sure
if the PS/2 did or not. Like most keyboard controllers, it's just a
row/column arrangement. Your biggest job would likely be cutting loose
all the matrix'ed connections on the original keyboard so you could
patch it into a matrix the PS/2 keyboard expects.
Or design a little converter board with a PIC. Better yet, leave the
Atari MB inside (if possible) and use THAT as the keyboard converter.
Write a small program on the Atari that spits out converted keycodes from
the Atari's serial port to the PS/2 port on the PC. Now THAT would be
cool (if not a bit dysfunctional unfortunately).
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