HP 1663A Logic Analyzer keyboard

[Ian Finder]

I'm curious to see for sure. In fact I may need one for my HP 715. But I'm
also 99.9% sure it is not useful for what Chuck has in mind.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > A quick check on prices for a HP A4220-62001, adapter seems to show
> that
> > > they aren't terribly expensive.
> > >
> >
> > It has never been clear to me whether those adapter boxes actually do
> > what you would want to do here, i.e. allow you to plug a PS/2 keyboard
> > and/or mouse into an HP-HIL host port and allow the PS/2 devices to
> > function as native HP-HIL devices.
> >
> > Some references on the net indicate that at least some of those
> > adapter boxes were really just passive breakout boxes where the host
> > natively supported both HP-HIL and PS/2 protocols but just had a
> > proprietary connector that needed to be broken out into HP-HIL and
> > PS/2 connectors.
> >
>
> I have one sitting in a drawer at home, I can crack it open tonight if
> anyone's curious what's inside ;).
>
> - Josh
>



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