[Nottingham] PS2 keyboard/adapter

Paul Sladen notlug at paul.sladen.org
Thu Feb 20 10:27:55 UTC 2014


On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Benjamin Crowe wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone on this list knew where I could get a female usb
> to male ps2 adapter?

Ebay.  However, a warning: these were frequently passive connectors 
(electrically straight-through) leaving it to the keyboard to
auto-detect whether to speak USB or PS/2 on the same wires.

You /can/ (rarely) get genuine protocol converters, so check what you
really need.

	-Paul




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