> PS2 to USB adapter dongles can be had for surprisingly little $$
> these days.
> Last one I brought was $AU10.
>
i own one of theese but of the two keyboards i tried it with didn't work and
lots of people report problems linking them to kvm switches. can anyone
reccomend any that behave well (good signal timings,5V supply to ps/2
device, full 5V signal levels etc).

> Got that after I discovered Dell Lattitude (600?) laptops have every port
> (even serial & parallel) except PS2.  Odd.
lots of laptops have dropped external ps/2 ports, the systems to make
internal and external appear as one ps/2 device and to allow either a
keyboard,a mouse or a keyboard and a mouse with a special splitter on the
same port were in my experiance quirky at best (especially with hotplugging
or trying to use internal and external at once) and i guess the laptop
makers decided it was easier to just use USB.


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