You might also want to check out the software designed to read from a serial-interface modified CueCat bar code reader, cuecat-0.3.0.tar.gz at http://www.viking.org.au/mirrors/cuecat/, IIRC. The original CueCat interfaced with the keyboard port, but there were hacks to serially interface it, then read the character stream. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Holley [mailto:swtpc6800@attbi.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:08 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Need PC-AT "keyboard BIOS" docs I have been looking into this also. Here is a good link on AT Keyboards http://www.beyondlogic.org/keyboard/keybrd.htm Michael Holley www.swtpc.com/mholley ----- Original Message ----- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:34:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Need PC-AT "keyboard BIOS" docs To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org I had this idea for a keyboard adapter for classic machines, but I don't understand the 40-pin "keyboard BIOS" microcontroller well enough to know if it's possible... So... is there a good place (on the web) to learn about the "keyboard BIOS" chip? Alternatively, is there already a project like this that I can clone? If anyone has any examples of how to attach a PeeCee keyboard to a 68000 or 6502 directly, without going through a UART, I guess I'd be interested in that, too; but since I was already planning on sticking a Z8530 or 6551 or 16550 chip on the OMNIBUS board anyway, I might as well use the same serial port for all embedded console I/O. Thanks for any pointers, -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com