9 Dec
2008
9 Dec
'08
10:53 a.m.
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Jules Richardson wrote:
Glen Slick wrote:
I ordered one of those converters a week ago. Hacking one of these up is
the route I'll eventually take after I get the screws necessary to
reassemble the inner sandwich of steel and plastic.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
USB keyboards and mice are HID (Human Interface
Device) devices and
there is a standard specification for these devices. The active
PS/2-USB adapters appear to the host to be a standard HID which
unknown to the host speaks PS/2 to the keyboard and/or mouse.
http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/HID1_11.pdf
Aha, that makes sense.
The clickykeyboards website actually makes mention of this, too:
http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/11298/subc…
... I think I'll just order one of their converters. As someone else has
already managed (http://zevv.nl/play/misc/ibm-usb) it's even small enough to
fit their converter internal to a Model M if desired.