> It would be dead simple to make an adapter to
convert a standard PC serial keyboard
> into an ASCII/strobe parallel interface - you get the added benefits of having lots
of
> extra keys, and the ability to assign whatever codes you like to them.
On Wed,
26 Jul 2006, Jules Richardson wrote:
I was pondering that. More than likely someone on this
list has already done
exactly that. Speak now. ;-)
I did it with an XT. Read a character and print it to LPT, in a loop.
Dave's mention of building a circuit would certainly be a smaller, more
"elegant" solution.