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Title: PS/2 to mini-USB Cable: the long and the short of it.
Post by: ghostpsalm on Mon, 23 April 2012, 08:16:28

I have owned a Leopold FC200RT tenkeyless keyboard for the last year and have enjoyed every moment of it. Last week my daughter spilt some water on the keyboard, game over.

I am looking to buy another mechanical keyboard and am trying to narrow down a short-list. However, this has been difficult. I would really like to use the PS/2 port (no-polling and NKRO), but am fed up with the USB-PS/2 adapter that makes the connector hang so far out the rear of the PC that I almost need to build a frame to hold it in place! There are few mechanical keyboards that have a PS/2 cable standard, most use an adapter.

I have noticed that the Rosewill keyboards (see .jpg]here (http://www.rosewill.com/products/1809/ProductDetail_Overview.htm#/Mgnt/Uploads/ImagesForProduct/ImgPrd-1809-Cm[3b3bf1e1b9314971b35f25f523088754)) ship with both a USB and PS/2 cable so you are prepared for either situation. I do not want a Rosewill KB however,* but I cannot for the life of me find such a cable, the searches are flooded with cables that are for the reverse connection (making an old USB keyboard work on USB port). I would prefer this option to getting a different keyboard, because at a later date I may need USB (if the mobo does not have PS/2), and since I will always have my keyboard plugged in it makes no sense to ever require an adapter.

Does any one know where I can get a quality, braided, PS/2 (mini-DIN) to mini USB cable? It shouldn't be this hard, right?



*I am looking for a keyboard with either Cherry Browns/Whites (I haven't tried White's yet, I am thinking about it, but need tactile/silent keys). The appearance, I prefer small, simple, understated, with perhaps a little flair (like, Leopold, Filco, Poker, etc) is important to me, tenkeyless is preferred due to appearance but not required. I would get Steelseries 7G except that is has Cherry Blacks. There are few left that I would like, so am looking at another Leopold FC200, or if I can stretch the budget a Filco Majestouch 2 (but even that doesn't have a removable USB cable, I think!).

Title: PS/2 to mini-USB Cable: the long and the short of it.
Post by: ghostpsalm on Wed, 25 April 2012, 06:01:35

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Title: PS/2 to mini-USB Cable: the long and the short of it.
Post by: TheProfosist on Wed, 25 April 2012, 06:09:07

I have the exact cables you looking for from a rosewill and they do infact fit a leopold.