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RE: Ok, palm keyboard, last time

Making the Palm Stowaway talking to PS/2 is actually simple using a small
microcontroler like PIC or ATMEL.
	http://www.iptel-now.de/HOWTO/ATMEL/atmel.html
If you build an adapter on your own it's about $US 20 for the material
and several people have worked on software for various microcontrolers
and RS232 + PS/2 communication. I'll try to set-up some info for whatever
direction
	serially => PS/2
	PS/2 => serially
is asked for frequently.

Seems - whatever device you own at a certain moment - it's just not
the one you need (e.g. Twiddler1 / serial => Twiddler2 / PS/2 - everybody
asked for it and should be happy, but now there are PDAs with no PS/2
again ....)  ;-))

Anyway - those uControllers with flash memory are so cheap and easy to
program + to handle that this can be solved easily.

regards
 ralf

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Zachariah C Pratt wrote:

> Thanks.  Not the answer I was hoping for, but thank you.  Alright, forget this.  I can't believe that no other companies manufacture
> foldable keyboards for PC's.  Maybe L3 would get into this if asked.  How many would be interested in a foldable pc keyboard that
> would connect to a standard ps/2 or AT port?
>
> Zach
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Keyes [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 2:33 PM
> To: 
> Subject: Re: Ok, palm keyboard, last time
>
> >  Do I need drivers for a Windows
> >OS or does Win automatically pick up 9 pin serial keyboard connections?
>
> You definitely need a driver.  The keyboard doesn't send ASCII, but
> just raw key up/down codes.  I know of a Linux driver or two, but
> not a Windows one offhand.
>
> Additionally, the keyboard has an annoying behavior of needing to be
> reset before use, by twiddling one of the handshaking pins after
> power is applied.  The driver needs to do this.
>
> - Edward Keyes
>   
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 Ralf Ackermann

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