Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mcnc!borg!oscar!tell From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: IBM Keyboard Output Message-ID: <1686@borg.cs.unc.edu> Date: 19 Feb 91 02:35:45 GMT References: <1991Feb17.065421.27814@athena.cs.uga.edu> <28386@ucsd.Edu> Sender: news@cs.unc.edu Distribution: sci Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 27 In article <28386@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) writes: >,... >It is possible to build a box to map a PC keyboard into just about any >kind of codes you might wish to have; thus you can put a small processor, >uart, and other stuff together to allow you to, for example, pick your >favourite PC keyboard (tilde and pipe keys in the right place, control >key where God intended it to be, good feel) from the hundreds of keyboards >on the market, and replace that awful piece of shit type-4 keyboard that >comes with the SP*RCstations. No, I haven't done it YET. > - Brian Hey, some of us like the Sparcstation keyboards! At least it has lots of function keys to go around... Wanna sell that type-4 keyboard real cheap? You want to talk nasty keyboards, try the one on the DECstation 3100 and related machines. You're right that someone ought to do a box to let everyone plug their favorite keyboards into their favorite machines. Imagine a PC keyboard on your Sparc, a Macintosh keyboard on your friend's PC, and the Sparc keyboard on your Amiga. Most everyone uses serialy-interfaced keycode-on-press, keycode-on-release these days. Shouldn't be terribly difficult. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Tell tell@cs.unc.edu H: +1 919 968 1792 #5L Estes Park apts CS Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill. W: +1 919 962 1845 Carrboro NC 27510