> On May 11, 2021, at 3:17 PM, Jonathan Stone <kiwi_jonat...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 10:49:05 AM PDT, Paul Koning via cctech
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> > Last year I created an LK201 keyboard emulator that uses a USB keyboard.
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> Just curious; have you thought of adding VSXXX-?? mouse emulation, using
> input from either USB or PS/2 mouse?
> With a mini-DIN output? These are becoming hard to find (aside perhaps from
> our Australian member who mentions having them by the kg).
No, I don't have anything that would use such a device.
It's probably easy enough to do. The USB keyboard emulator is a device that
has a USB host connector that accepts a keyboard, and an RS232 output to
connect to the terminal. If you have some other device to emulate where the
new hardware is USB (like a mouse) and the DEC side is a UART, it would be a
matter of new software plus perhaps a different connector. One big question
would be the need to dig up the protocols at the two ends. The LK201 protocol
is spelled out in great detail in the Pro technical manual; if you can find the
mouse protocol documentation then it's just SMOP.
By all means feel free to grab the design and fork it to do what you want. As
I said, I'm not likely to do it myself given the lack of anything to try it on.
paul
