Bought a PS/2 -> USB converter today, and the keyboard plug was broken, rendering it useless. Or did it? It quickly went under the knife.
The plastic was soft and easily cut with a box cutter.
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The controller on a 42H1292 (fixed, straight cable). There have been a lot of size reductions in the controller over the production of these boards.
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Precrimped USB cable from another IBM 'board. Connectors have been backed out of their housing.
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Converter's been soldered on and potted in epoxy (to compensate for poor soldering).
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Wrapped in electrical tape.
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Each individual connector you saw before has been wrapped in electrical tape and plugged in. Afterwards, a strip of epoxy was added to keep them together.
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The line installed. Note that the lines aren't color coded correctly. Sorry.
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This little "mod" took about 20 minutes, and is fully reversible. You can swap between PS/2 and USB cables at your heart's desire. This could very easily be done instead in a ferrite housing for external cables (SDL connectored M's) if you don't have a fixed cord model.
