Re: A92: 92 external kbd

To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A92: 92 external kbd
From: Brian Smith <subby@pcisys.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:50:27 -0700
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if your selling them, i'll take one

Grant Stockly wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >>----------
> >>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
> >>
> >>
> >>

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RE: A92: 92 external kbd

From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)