PS/2 -> Indigo adapters

[JP Hindin]

Joe has obviously never attempted to find an Indigo keyboard on eBay! :P
I ended up buying one of these convertors because the keyboards either
don't come up, or they go for some $60 :P



On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Joe R. wrote:

>    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
> >
> >
> >
> 
>