[Coco] MC-11 Status Update

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Yeah, I think most older USB keyboards will support the adapters.  

But as Al was indicating, PS2 keyboards are commonplace.  A quick ebay query turns up 
over 6,000 listings with a wide variety of prices (starting at almost nothing) and styles.

- Ed


> On Jul 27, 2015, at 7:51 PM, Steve Batson via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> 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. 
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> On Jul 27, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> -[ Al ]-
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>> -----Original Message----- On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Steve Batson via Coco wrote:
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>>> 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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