USB Universal Floppy Disk controller
Tony Duell
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 16 19:38:16 CST 2005
> > > I'm having difficulty finding a PS/2 to AT keyboard adapter [1].
> >
> > But that's just a connector change. Cut off the PS/2 mini-DIN plug and
> > solder on a normal DIN plug, or vice versa.
>
> What? And risk one of my precious IBM keyboards?! They're getting harder
What's the risk? FWIW, I did the PS/2 -> AT conversion on the IBM
keyboard I am typing this on.
I seem to rememnber I couldn't find the PS/2 pinout at the time I was
doing it. I did (of course) have the PC/AT one. I opened up the keyboard
and buzzed out 2 of the wires to the power pins of a known chip. Those I
soldered to the right pair of pins on the DIN plug. The other 2 wires,
clock and data, are both open-collector driven bidirectional TTL signals.
You can try those one way round on the clock/data pins of the DIN plug,
when it doesn't work ('press F1 to contine' :-)), power down and try them
the other way round.
> But I've gotten a few solid leads on some adaptors (and yes, it's worth it
> to me to buy the adaptors---nothing more dangerous than a software guy with
> a soldering iron and all that.
How about a hardware guy with a C compiler :-)
-tony
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