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From: n8541751@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu (Where there is darkness, light)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Pinout for DIN, PS/2 keyboard cables?
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.095714.6981@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 09:57:14 GMT
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dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:

>I want to plug a standard IBM AT keyboard into a computer that has a
>PS/2-type keyboard jack (it's a Goldstar 386SuX :-)

>I found a mail-order house that sells an adapter that does the job,
>but they are back-ordered for a while. In the meantime, I have some
>DIN jacks lying around, and I wonder if I could just solder some
>short wires onto the leads of a DIN jack and carefully poke them 
>into the correct holes in the PS/2-type keyboard jack. (I'd secure
>the whole jerry-rig in a very professional manner using that wonder
>of the 20th century, duct tape. Who can have a life without duct
>tape?)


Just buy one.  It's an awful lot easier.  I got mine from JDR microdevices
in California.  

Kris.

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