Collaborate Disseminate
We’re not sure if there’s any single characteristic that qualifies someone as a hacker. After all, we’re a pretty eclectic bunch, with skills that range all over the map, and …read more Continue reading Connecting a Keyboard to a Vintage PC-XT, the Hard Way
The hacking life is not without its challenges, and chief among these is the tendency to always be in acquisition mode. When we come across a great deal on bulk …read more Continue reading A Handy Tester for a Mountain of PS/2 Keybords
In the world of PC graphics, the early standards followed the various video cards of the day. There was MDA, familiar through the original text-based DOS prompt, CGA, then EGA, …read more Continue reading Have You Heard Of MCGA?
The PS/2-style port was once about as ubiquitous on PCs as USB connectors are today, and more than a few of us accumulated a fair collection of keyboards and mice …read more Continue reading The Wireless PS/2 Keyboard That Never Was
Say what you will about suitcase computers, but at least most of them still have their keyboards with them. [danjovic] has this vintage Brazilian computer from the 1980s called a …read more Continue reading EXPS/2 Keyboard Adapter Translates PS/2 and USB to MSX
1987 was a glorious year. It brought us the PS/2 keyboard standard that’s still present on many a motherboard back panel to this day. (It also marked the North America/Europe release of The Legend of Zelda but that’s another article.) …read more
Continue reading Decoding the PS/2 Keyboard Protocol Using Good Old Fashioned Hardware