Re: real keyboard?

On 11/23/2021 7:54 AM, bad sector wrote:
> On 10/16/21 5:37 PM, bad sector wrote:
>>
>> looking for keyboard with
>>
>> wired
>> ps2 + working-usb-adapter
>> mechanical
>> white or very light gray or beige
>> large engraved black letter caps
>> large L shaped enter key
>>
>> something like
>> https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/mechanical-keyboard-guide/index_files/picture_024.jpeg
>>
>> but with no numpad
> 
> Done some time with the DURGOD gaming keyboard plugged
> into usb-2 and still no problems, looks like this WAS the issue.
> Still, I plan to glue this one to my g73 laptop (a hopeless design-crime
> now with its 3rd and last keyboard) and get me a real ps2 for
> the desktop.
> 
> Can't get any email out to durgod, anybody know if they make
> one with a ps2 interfcae, not a usb that's convertible to ps2
> but a real ps2  (that might be convertibleto usb)? I'm also
> open to other makes (mechanical, gaming, ps2, white, durable
> letters on keycaps)

Intel is the party that declared computer things as "obsolete".

PCI bus for example, is obsolete, and my newest motherboard does
not have one. The previous machine had one thrown in (a separate
chip used to do it, a bridge chip).

The PS/2 is dead as far as I know, but motherboard companies have
been putting a DIN connector with dual mouse/keyboard wiring. The
SuperIO chips, still contain things Intel was not expecting. If
a company wants to have hardware monitoring, that is what drags
in support for other legacy interfaces.

Generally speaking, there is no reason for keyboard controller
chips to be supporting legacy interfaces. The result of this, is
with time, all you'll find are USB2.

As for the Durgod brand, they're Chinese, and the prices for
some of their products are sky high. You could build your
own keyboard. I've done that, once. It was an interesting exercise
getting the key framework, to seat on the PCB. Took hours to
get the pins to go into the holes. This is back in the day,
where I used to draw the conductor pattern on the PCB blank,
with India Ink.

    Paul