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Offline huha

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Ascii->ps/2/usb
« on: Thu, 09 April 2009, 07:02:00 »
Hi,

I've got an old keyboard here which spits out ASCII on 7 lines. There are quite a few projects enabling to adapt PS/2 keyboards to spit out ASCII, but I have found none that does it the other way round, i.e. converting an ASCII keyboard to PS/2 or even USB.
Are there any cost-effective solutions available or will I have to build my own?

-huha
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Offline keyb_gr

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Ascii->ps/2/usb
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 16 April 2009, 15:36:21 »
The one problem I see with such a conversion is that you have to make assumptions about the host PC's keyboard layout when generating scancodes. Of course scancode --> ASCII converters have the same problem at the keyboard side. In any case some kind of configurability would be required, and that usually doesn't aid cheap mass-production...

In any case, judging from the enormous number of responses, I fear you'll have to tackle this for yourself... :(
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Offline annoyedatKVM

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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 16 April 2009, 18:39:30 »
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