13 Jan
2008
13 Jan
'08
2:54 a.m.
On Sat, 2008-01-12 21:26:39 -0500, Dave Dunfield <dave06a at dunfield.com> wrote:
I have no idea how hard DEC keyboards and mice are to find, but PC/PS2
devices are VERY plentiful, and I would imagine that there must be others
with VAXen and not the keyboard/mouse - If there's enough interest,
(or I don't find a mouse), I'll persue it further.
Keyboards and mice are comparably easy to get, but the graphics tablet
was quite hard to find. Took me one and a half year to get one, just
to test my driver whether it works correctly.
MfG, JBG
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the second : deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Ben Franklin)
I found details of the keyboard and mouse protocol in
the back of
a Microvax manual, and have been toying with the idea of building
a small embedded controller to take a PC (PS2) keyboard and mouse,
and emulate the DEC equivalents to the VAX - would anyone else be
interested in this?
That's a nice little fun project, not too hard to implement.
Personally, I do have real hardware (LK201/LK401 keyboard, VSXXX-AA
and -GA mice and even a graphics tablet) that I use with my Linux box
(with a simple adaptor to bring the MMJ11/Mini-DIN plug into the DE9
world, along with the Linux drivers for that hardware.)