Keyboard PS/2 to Parallel converter - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Jan 2008

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:48, Enrico Lazzerini wrote:
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   From:
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>

 There was some project article in Byte way back when,  by Steve Ciarcia,
 which provided a peecee-type keyboard input (AT rather than PS/2 but that
 shouldn't make that much difference).  The circuit to deal with this was
 very simple and elegant,  though I can't remember any more just how it was
 done.  
  He didn't use a UART or similar,  though, 
just a couple of MSI chips. 
 And I remember thinking then how it wouldn't be all that hard to stuff an
 eprom between the output of that circuit (which gave you keycodes rather
 than characters) and have it spit out ASCII.

 Perhaps one of these days I'll run across the article again. 
 Roy,

 here would be the list of articles by Steve Ciarcia

 http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/author/203.en.html

 May you try to find the exact article? 
That's an interesting list,  and I'm sure that it will help narrow things down 
some,  but I can't recall from just the title which article it was.  The list 
will help me omit some of them,  though.

A while back I did a serious reduction in a lot of the old magazines that I 
had been keeping,  and included in that was a bunch of Byte,  not the real 
early ones,  which I still have intact,  but that period of time when they 
started to get rather bulky.  I clipped a lot of articles out and kept them,  
and filled nine large trash bags with what I didnt want any more.  Somewhere 
around here I have a couple of boxes that have those clipped articles in 
them,  and once I find them and get the chance to go through them,  I'll 
probably find the article I'm thinking of.

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