Date   : Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:23:06 +0000
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: New storage system suggestinons?

2009/10/14 Rick Murray <rick@...>:

>  I wonder how well a
> modern PC keyboard would integrate into a system expecting far fewer key
> options. Indeed, would it work at all with software that interrogates
> the system VIA to check for keypresses? It's a single-tasking computer,
> so software is fairly free to abuse the rules and the API and bitbash if
> it will gain a few microseconds here and there.

I was wondering about this. I've got a Master with no keyboard that I
had half an idea, maybe, one day, to build into a desktop case. There
are a number of solutions to the external keyboard problem, and I'm
not totally convinced by this or Sprow's PS/2 adapter, due to what
you've described. Another option might be to build a Master keyboard
into a case (or a B keyboard by removing the Master's keyboard
decoder). My favourite option, one which doesn't seem to exist and one
which I don't have the skill to do, would be some kind of PIC-based
converter which connects a PS/2 keyboard or similar to the actual
keyboard connector on the motherboard.
-- 
Alex Taylor