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Offline jkercado

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Does the Dell AT101W works with regular dumb PS/2 to USB adapter?
« on: Sun, 01 January 2012, 21:35:34 »
Title says it all...I've searched the forum (and yes, the Wikis) and couldn't find this simple piece of info.
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Does the Dell AT101W works with regular dumb PS/2 to USB adapter?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 01 January 2012, 21:57:22 »
No. Dumb cheap PS/2 to USB adapters are for keyboards who support USB and PS/2 on the same cable. They are just two connectors wired together in the same package. For these keyboards, the opposite is more common, though: USB connector on the keyboard's end and PS/2 on the host's.

You need an active PS/2 to USB adapter with conversion circuitry in it to connect the AT101W to a USB port. Read more in the PS2 to USB adapters Wiki.
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Does the Dell AT101W works with regular dumb PS/2 to USB adapter?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 01 January 2012, 22:14:10 »
Thanks. I already have a Blue Cube for adapter duties that I bought when I got my Model M, but I just wondered if the Dell, being a more recent unit, would work with the simpler unit.
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