HP-HIL keyboards with PS/2 connectors - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Aug 2016

In a message dated 8/26/2016 8:51:16 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
phb.hfx at gmail.com writes:

On 2016-08-26 12:37 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
...
  Years  ago I bought two HP 9000/715s. I've barely
done anything with them,
 so  I don't remember for sure if they even came with keyboards. That  
unit's
...
  keyboards are supposed to be HP-HIL, and I know there
was a  breakout box  to
...
  use a PS/2 *connector* on such a keyboard; but I'm
 wondering about the
 particulars of that.

 I have run  across one HP keyboard in my stash, which has a PS/2  connector.
...
  It  only partially works on a PC -- certain keys
don't register at all.   What
...
  I'd like to know is: is it certain that this is
just a broken  beige box  PC
...
  keyboard? The alternative I'm pondering is that
it's  really an HP-HIL
 keyboard with a PS/2 connector that just  coincidentally seems to  partially
...
  work on a PC. That's unlikely, I  know, but I just
want confirmation to  rule
...
  it out.
 It is  probably just a broken PC keyboard the communication protocols on 
PS/2 and  HP-HIL are very different.

and.... the  HP HIL  keyboad has a TOTALLY  different   connector also...