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Offline BigBrother

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Westinghouse industrial keyboard
« on: Mon, 22 April 2013, 02:35:52 »
For the few that remember, a couple years ago, I got an industrial keyboard. One with a parallel port and it was foam&foil switches. Well, today, I decided I want to use it but damn me, I don't know how to fiddle an old keyboard for actual use. I know HaaTa (on IRC) has done at least 100 keyboards but he doesn't like helping people. Does anyone else know how? is there a guide?

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Offline 002

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Re: Westinghouse industrial keyboard
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 22 April 2013, 06:09:38 »
That's not true that HaaTa doesn't like helping people.
I know you're probably joking but for the sake of people who don't know, HaaTa is helpful; just a very busy dude.
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Offline SmallFry

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Re: Westinghouse industrial keyboard
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 22 April 2013, 07:44:16 »
A wild BigBrother appears! I don't know if the Soarer-verter will convert it, depends on the protocol that the board uses.
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Offline BigBrother

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Re: Westinghouse industrial keyboard
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 22 April 2013, 14:43:08 »
Quote from: 002 on Mon, 22 April 2013, 06:09:38
That's not true that HaaTa doesn't like helping people.
I know you're probably joking but for the sake of people who don't know, HaaTa is helpful; just a very busy dude.
Actually, I asked him to help me on something- a keyboard from a deaf-telecomm machine and he said he'd help me on the upcoming friday; friday came and went, I reminded him, he said friday again and thus two weeks had came and went without his help.
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Offline BigBrother

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Re: Westinghouse industrial keyboard
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 18:41:37 »
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Offline Hak Foo

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Re: Westinghouse industrial keyboard
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:42:27 »
The issue is at what level you're doing conversion.

If you're intercepting at a scan-code level, a Soarer converter works.

If you're bypassing the controller, you need something like an AIKON which manages the matrix directly.
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Offline BigBrother

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Re: Westinghouse industrial keyboard
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:54:57 »
Quote from: Hak Foo on Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:42:27
The issue is at what level you're doing conversion.

If you're intercepting at a scan-code level, a Soarer converter works.

If you're bypassing the controller, you need something like an AIKON which manages the matrix directly.
interesting... interesting. now, Soarer's converter is the same for the XT F? or is it something else?
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Re: Westinghouse industrial keyboard
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:55:34 »
Yep the same.
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Offline BigBrother

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Re: Westinghouse industrial keyboard
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:11:36 »
I don't have an oscilloscope so I can't actually tell which lines are power or data or something else. The one I still have has less pins than the one I originally posted. Pins 1, 3-12, 14 and 15 are populated. the rest are blank.
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