[plug] Re: Keyboard dongles

Nick Bannon nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Nov 7 14:47:57 WST 2005


On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:10:35PM +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> Couldn't you just rip the guts out of an old keyboard and use that?

Yes. Here's a link about it, with pictures:

http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_30634/article.html

(If the BIOS option exists, use it, but for machines like those Compaqs
that don't - AT / PS/2 keyboards are on a bus and you do need some
circuitry for an effective dummy keyboard. 10Kbps/sec of underappreciated
networking throughput!

http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2keyboard/
)

Nick.

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