--- "Ram & Suganthi M." <ram_suganthi(a)hotmail.com> wrote: Excellent! Thanks for the pointer. I was recently asking about how to convert a PS/2 keyboard into RS-232. Since I have a quantity of Sun4 and Sun5 keyboards, this is a reasonable substitute. It's a solvable problem, but now the issue is baud rate... I'll have to build a box that speaks 1200 baud to the keyboard and does any filtering, etc., and speaks 9600 baud to the target. No. They are resistive devices that are read by using a timer to count ticks for a simple RC circuit to trigger. I think someone pointed out that there is a Gravis product for laptops that _is_ a serial gamepad. I got a job once because someone asked how to hook a joystick up to an Alpha-based (Kubota) workstation under Digital Unix. My answer was of sufficient complexity that I was cut off in the middle with, "how soon can you come to New York?" Had a great week. The result was a virtual reality exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts including an invite to the opening and my name on the wall with the other people on the project. Big fun! Wouldn't have happened if that laptop gamepad had existed 8 years ago. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com