> On Jun 24, 2021, at 9:30 AM, Mark Matlock via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>> On Jun 24, 2021, at 1:25 AM, Zane Healy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> And all this time I thought that I wanted a VT525! How much are the
>> VTLAN40’s going for?
>>
>> Zane
>
> Zane,
> If you explain to Mitch Miller at Keyways that you are a hobbyist, he will
> sell them for $400,
> at least he has in the past. He also has new and used LK411-AA keyboards. The
> last one I
> bought was $190 for new. That seems expensive but it has the round connector
> like a PC
> used to used for keyboard before USB. It might be possible to make an adapter
> to convert
> an old VT420 keyboard to the round connector if one knew how the pin outs for
> each mapped?
LK201s use 4800 baud UART interfacing. PC keyboards with DIN connectors (PS-2)
have a very different type of interface, nothing like a UART. If the terminal
you are talking about wants a PS-2 keyboard, as my VT501 does, you need a
protocol translator. It would essentially be the reverse of the LK201 emulator
for PS-2 keyboards I released a while back, and possibly the same board could
be used with a rather different program running on it.
paul
