Sonny Hung wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Mac128DOTcom > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > But there were no converters, either for the keyboards or the mice. > > > I'm going to throw this in the pot... > To the best of my knowledge I thought that there was a thread out > there that mentioned an adapter for at least the keyboard because the > keyboard used the phone handset cables with the inner wires flipped > over. This adapter was discussed awhile back. However I don't recall > ever an adapter being discussed for the mouse. > > So Keyboard YES and Mouse NO > > The question then is were there any ever developed and that we didn't > hear about OR just don't remember. > It's very likely someone may have tried making one for themselves but > didn't ever discuss it. > The keyboard adapter/converter IIRC could be home brew BUT I > personally do not recall any info or links for it :(
In this day of cheap, readily-available microcontrollers and burners, it would likely be possible and even pretty straightforward to build a translator between the two. The current project I see is dedicated towards attaching various keyboards to other interfaces (primarily to PS2, though there are some others thrown in) http://www.kbdbabel.org/ Of interest to this group would be the Mac 128k/512k/Plus -> PS2 and PS2 -> Mac Plus/etc. But, the mouse protocols are, if anything, simpler than the keyboard ones, so there'd be nothing keeping someone from doing something similar. I suspect it would be trivial to adapt one of the old "Bus Mouse" or "InPort Mouse" type PC mice since the pins are similar. I've seen adapers to attach them to Atari STs, at any rate. Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
