Re: [TCLUG:18425] RS232 keyboard

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

"Seth I. Bernsen" wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure how much sense an RS-232C keyboard would make.
> >
> > That would mean that it has an RS-232C-conforming connector and can
> > send serial data.  If it's a terminal then it would have a male
> > connector (DB25 25-bin) configured for DTE.
> >
> > This really sounds like it ought to be a terminal.
> >
> > It would be intersting to know how an "RS-232C keyboard" compares
> > with any other kind of keyboard.
> 
> These are all good questions!  I don't know what the data from an RS232
> keyboard would look like, but I had not thought to use a terminal, but I
> bet that would do the trick.  I'd just have to cross wires and turn the
> DTE into DCE.  A co-worker had suggested a device manufactured by
> BlackBox (tm) that is a PS/2 <-> RS232 converter (rumored to be part
> #IC813A).  I wish I knew what that device did...

I did some digging and found a serial chord keyboard kit
[http://www.circussystems.com/keyboards.html] (pretty spendy, though..)

There was another company selling a "105 Key Serial Keyboard KBD1002"
[http://www.xstop.co.uk/itm00772.htm], but that could be a USB keyboard
or something..

There's some info at the Linux Input Driver project page
[http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/] regarding getting a
Sun keyboard working on a PC serial port, so you could probably ask some
people involved with that project or the Linux Console project
[http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/] about where to find such
interesting hardware..

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