PS/2 -> Indigo adapters

[Joe R.]

   Why bother? The origianl SGI stuff is going for almost nothing on E-bay.

     Joe


At 09:21 AM 3/8/05 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi, 
>
>Has anyone successfully built one of the PS/2 -> Indigo adapters off of
>the following page? 
>
>http://rshockley.dyndns.org/indigo.htm
>
>
>I'm having a devil of a time getting the mouse portion of things to
>work.  
>
>When I hook my scope up to the clock and/or data PS/2 lines, I see no
>data being received from the mouse.
>
>I'm wondering if the mouse init code is not liking any of the PS/2 mice
>I've got around.  (I've tried 4 different ones.) 
>
>If you've got one working, what sort of mouse do you have? 
>
>I freely admit, I'm not a PIC expert, as this is my first project w/
>them.  :->  So any clue's anyone cares to beat me about the head and
>shoulders w/ will be appreciated. 
>
>I do know the PIC's are "running", as the dozen test program I wrote
>toggles the pins on PortA, and the keyboard side of things appears to be
>working.  I'm also pretty certain that my config word is right,
>particularly external oscillator, and watchdog timer is off. 
>
>Anyone got one working?   Or do I get to experience the joy's of reverse
>engineering the code? 
>
>Thanks, 
>
>David
>
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