RE: A92: 92 external kbd

To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: RE: A92: 92 external kbd
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:51:52 -0700
Delivered-To: assembly-92-outgoing@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se
Reply-To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org


I didn't know you wanted one...I didn't get too much interest, so I dropped
marketing.  Basically I have a chip that connects between the keyboard and
calc.  The calc needs no driver.  You plug the chip in, turn on the power,
and the keyboard appears to be the one inside your 92.  Keys like alt and
ctrl have been remaped to <*> and 2nd, and so on...

Remaped keys are: F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, ctrl, alt, (math functions) and
some others...

I think $5 would be a fair price for it...I had to pay $3+shipping for the
parts...

Is this what you want?

>This will really be useful once the TI-89 comes out because it won't
>have a keyboard.
>
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>>From:  Ritchie Argue[SMTP:ciphyr@usa.net]
>>Reply To:      assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>>Sent:  Wednesday, March 25, 1998 9:38 AM
>>To:    assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>>Subject:       Re: A92: 92 external kbd
>>
>>
>>
>>As far as I can see, the 92 only automatically supports ascii chars, so you
>>can't even press f1, or arrow keys or anything.  What I was hoping to do is
>>mix the supported remote mode with a driver that can catch special packets
>>that will be defined for the rest of the keys, and then pass it on to the
>>os.  In this way we should be able to use an external keyboard entirely,
>>without needing the onboard one.  This isn't _really_ that useful, since
>>the main thing that you'll be doing with an ext.kbd is writing text files,
>>but I would like to be able to support arrow keys etc.
>>
>>Ritchie
>>
>>
>>

Follow-Ups:

Re: A92: 92 external kbd

From: "David Kühling" <dkuehlin@hell1og.be.schule.de>

Re: A92: 92 external kbd

From: Brian Smith <subby@pcisys.net>

A92: I'll buy an external keyboard

From: dsplaisted@juno.com (Daniel S Plaisetd)