HP Keyboards

[cctech at blala.de]

Hi,
the HP9816-(HP9000/216)-keyboard is definitively not HP-HIL-type.
HP-HIL is a bi-directional-bus-poll type protocol,
HP9816 is unidirectional synchronous "long shift register" type.
Here is a raw diagram of the keyboard protocol and connector
http://www.kbdbabel.org/hp9816kbd.png
http://www.kbdbabel.org/conn/kbd_connector_hp9816.png

There exists an protocol converter from the HP9816-keyboard to PS2
http://kbdbabel.cvs.sourceforge.net/kbdbabel/kbdbabel/kbdbabel-hp9816-ps2/
PS2 to HP9816 should be possible as well.

  Alexander


On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Rik wrote:

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> Does any one knows if the keyboards of the 9000/200 series are
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