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Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: Hak Foo on Fri, 01 May 2009, 19:43:43
So I bought a really old PS/2->USB adaptor.  A "PI Engineering Y-Mouse" device, which promises the ability to connect up to two keyboards or mice to a single USB port.  Apparently, they still sell a newer model at $60.  The one I got was in a sale of unwanted equipment, probably from when USB first came out and didn't take over the world, and cost quite a bit less.

I hung it off my spare M, leaving my main one connected via PS/2, and it seems to work-  amusingly, the lock leys on each board affect both.

Except for Scroll Lock on the adapter-connected board.  It doesn't register or set the light that I can see, although the one on the PS/2 connected board will illuminate both boards' LED.

Is this typical of USB adaptors?

I sort of like... just for the sheer obscenity... the concept of using the adaptor to hook two full-size PS/2 Ms up side by side.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: huha on Fri, 01 May 2009, 20:12:23
My cheap USB adapters are completely unimpressed by the host computer's PS/2 keyboard settings.

-huha
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: Hak Foo on Fri, 01 May 2009, 20:52:03
Fixed.  Apparently this is a very "clever" adapter; you can program it to do things like "use Scroll Lock as a Macintosh Power button".

Apparently, you can also configure it to force it to use right alt as a Windows key.  Not too shabby, although considering it's 12 times the price of the Blue Cube, I'm not sure I can reccomend it wholeheartedly.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: Hak Foo on Sat, 02 May 2009, 00:53:55
Well, I lucked out... the only Geekhack-enviable item at the local college's scrap-shop (formerly home to all sorts of weird PCs and their keyboards, now just a few of those noxious iMac keyboards that will never ever sell)-- $1, still in the box.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 04 May 2009, 07:19:14
Quote from: ripster;88627
LOL. I like my USB dongles cheap and stupid.
 
- Ripster

Just like I like my women.
 
 
 
I joke, I joke; I kid, I kid. Completely OT, but I just met a FANTASTIC young lady, and we spent a phenomenal weekend together. Just thought I would share; I am totally geeked about her.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: iMav on Mon, 04 May 2009, 07:34:07
Quote from: itlnstln;88939
Completely OT, but I met a FANTASTIC young lady, we spent a phenomenal weekend together.  Just thought I would share; I am totally geeked about her.


We'll know you're serious about her when you have her register an account here and formally meet your geekhack family.  :)
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 04 May 2009, 07:39:27
Quote from: iMav;88940
We'll know you're serious about her when you have her register an account here and formally meet your geekhack family. :)

LOL
 
Will do, but I will be sure to confer with eherzog to see how that worked out for her first. :)
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 04 May 2009, 07:43:51
Quote from: itlnstln;88939
Completely OT, but I met a FANTASTIC young lady, we spent a phenomenal weekend together. Just thought I would share; I am totally geeked about her.

Wow, that is a horribly formed sentence.  I fixed it for your reading ease and pleasure... and my OCD.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: wellington1869 on Mon, 04 May 2009, 09:33:16
Quote from: itlnstln;88939
Completely OT, but I just met a FANTASTIC young lady, and we spent a phenomenal weekend together. Just thought I would share; I am totally geeked about her.


no wonder you didnt post all weekend ;)
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 04 May 2009, 09:40:52
Quote from: wellington1869;88945
no wonder you didnt post all weekend ;)

What do you mean by "post?" ;)
 
That's actually pretty normal, but completely correct.  I didn't even touch a keyboard all weekend.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 04 May 2009, 10:02:11
You might want to watch out for user Amanda, too.  I think that's his daughter.  She tends to clean up in the Arcade.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 04 May 2009, 11:42:50
I wouldn't worry too much; I doubt they frequent the forums often.  I instigate much of the sailor talk myself.  Even though I post some of the things I do, I try to keep the verbage such, so you at least have to think about it for a second instead of laying things out there explicitly.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: o2dazone on Mon, 04 May 2009, 15:09:18
Quote from: itlnstln;88946
I didn't even touch a keyboard all weekend.


Did she touch yours?

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Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 04 May 2009, 15:12:08
Quote from: o2dazone;89002
Did she touch yours?
 
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Unfortunately, no.
 
Did I mention, though, that she knows how to drive a stick shift?
 
 
 
That was horrible; I am ashamed of myself.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: o2dazone on Mon, 04 May 2009, 15:15:23
Nice that's pretty dirty >:} pm me the details
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 04 May 2009, 15:22:06
Quote from: o2dazone;89008
Nice that's pretty dirty >:} pm me the details

There's not anything dirty to report (sorry :) ).  She's an amazing person, and, without getting into a whole lot of detail, I can honestly say that I have ever met a girl that I had so much in common with.  We met this past Friday at the First Friday art show in South Town here in SA.  We got to talkng and the rest was history.  Much different than the "superstars" everybody seems to be here in San Antonio.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: wellington1869 on Mon, 04 May 2009, 15:54:57
Quote

She's an amazing person, and, without getting into a whole lot of detail, I can honestly say that I have ever met a girl that I had so much in common with


why i do believe intlstln is in love :)

intlstln and unknown artsy chic
sittin' in a tree
k-i-s-s-i-n-g
first comes love
then comes marraige
then comes itlnstln with a baby carraige!
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 04 May 2009, 16:53:59
Easy with the baby carriage thing.
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: o2dazone on Mon, 04 May 2009, 17:13:57
intlstln and his girlfriend
sitting at a pc
f-s-c-k-i-n-g
Title: PS/2->USB adaptor and Scroll Lock
Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 05 May 2009, 07:04:10
Quote from: o2dazone;89061
intlstln and his girlfriend
sitting at a pc
f-s-c-k-i-n-g

LOL.  That was classic.
 
I need to go plug in my dongle now.
 
 
What I need to do is just stop.