Short of "doing it the hard ways" (carving the keyboard controller on
the motherboard off the machine, or reverse engineering the input pins
for a port replicator/dock keyboard port, going to perhaps be tough;  I
think I have an Aero 33 somewhere here in the "fix and sell" stack,
though, should be able to get that found & perhaps trace the pins inside
the dock (or is it a port replicator?) that's with it, though.

I've seen serial keyboards before (The HP200LX people use a Newton
keyboard, adapted to fit it's serial port.)  So that particular driver
and hardware may well be easier to get than a direct hardware solution;
The Newton keyboard isn't exactly "huge", though.

One guy's building a chording keyboard off the parallel port, this is
possibly the easiest way to go for home-built keyboard attachment, his
web page for his Basic Stamp widget is at
http://web.mountain.net/~roair/wearjunk.html.  Change that to take a
regular keyboard off an 'F84, and you'd do OK, I think?  (I'd put the
PIC chip in the 25-pin connector, use a DB25 housing, only install a
PS/2 connector at right angles there maybe?  <G>

  Mark

Randy Glenn wrote:
>
> That 60 pin job sounds to me like a port replicator or a docking station conne
ctor. Maybe if you
> looked at www.compaq.com, they might have something.
>
> -Randy
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grijalba@cvtci.com.ar [mailto:grijalba@cvtci.com.ar]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 10:05 PM
> To: piclist@mitvma.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [OT] Attaching a Keyboard to a Notebook
>
> Hi Mark
> I think the notebook doesn4t have a keyboard port (is quite old) !!
> It only has a serial, an LPT and a 60 pin female plug (don4t know
> what this
> is !)
> Can I build an adapter (and the right software) to plug the keyboard
> to the
> Comm or LPT ??
> Thanks
> Javier
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Mark Willis <mwillis@FOXINTERNET.NET>
> Para: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Fecha: Martes 16 de Noviembre de 1999 03:38 a.m.
> Asunto: Re: [OT] Attaching a Keyboard to a Notebook
>
> >>If you get a "DIN 5 to Mini-Din 6" adapter, you should be able to
> >just
> >>plug the keyboard into the adapter, and then the adapter into the
> >>keyboard, assuming the laptop has a keyboard port?
> >>
> >>Among MANY other places, http://www.computergate.com/ has these, for
> >>example, part number AK0506FM, 99 cents.  I drop orders in there
> >all the
> >>time, need to order more serial cables pretty soon!
> >>
> >>Talk to me off-list, I know somewhat about old machines, sort of
> >refurb
> >>'em for "pin money" occasionally.
> >>
> >>  Mark
> >>
> >>Javier wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi
> >>> I want to attach a standard keyboard to an old Compaq Contura
> >4/25, does
> >>> anybody know how to do this ???
> >>> Any sites with info about old notebooks??
> >>> Thanks a lot
> >>> Javier
> >>
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