[Coco] MC-11 Status Update

[Steve Batson]

I have some old keyboards around that may work then...I guess I'll wait and see what the end state of this thing is. I would be fun to use to build up a system. 


On Jul 27, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:

> A PS/2 to USB adapter only converts the pin assignments. The keyboard has to have the circuitry within it to detect that you have attached the adapter and switch to PS/2 mode.
> 
> That's why these adapters don't work with every keyboard.
> 
> There are active adapters that have circuitry, they will cost a bit more money. But, you can still find PS/2 keyboards if you look on Amazon, eBay, and elsewhere.
> 
> -[ Al ]-
> 
> -----Original Message----- On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Steve Batson via Coco wrote:
> 
>> Cool so I suspect that it would work fine with a PS2 to USB adapter.
>> This sounds like a great homebrew computer that you could build up for all
>> kinds of control projects and things like that 
> 
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