Hi!/ Sharing the technology/ LK401/ Thanks! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

31 Dec 2002

On Dec 31, 13:03, Justin wrote:
...
  > Oops.  Sounds like you have an LK450, LK461 or
LK471, not an LK401.  LK401
...
  > uses a DEC protocol, the others are PS/2-style
keyboards.  They're not
 > interchangeable, I'm afraid.  There should be a label on the underside,
 > with three barcodes, the top barcode being the model number.  Does it say
...
   LK401, or
something a little different? 
 You are the only one to say it speaks DEC and not ps/2 though it has a
 ps/2 connector.  The circuitboard looks like that of a LK201 when I take
 it apart. 
They all look fairly similar.  What I meant is that the ones with
PS/2-style plugs normally use PS/2 protocol, and the ones with an RJ11 use
a different, proprietary protocol.  My PS/2 ones are at work so I can't
easily check.  The only ones I have here are RJ11 LK401s, from VT420s.

...
  It does have  3 barcodes on the bottom.  It isn't
made by DEC but in
 Mexico by someone 
My LK401s, one UK layout, one German, both say Made in Mexico but they're
still DEC.

...
  But it ways 5.0 VDC, so I guess it must be ps/2 and
not dec style since
 dec has 12 vdc? 
Sorry, I can't remember.

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