![]() ![]() The short version of this answer boils down to something pretty simple and easy:Ĭheap, easy: try more different keyboards with your passive PS/2↔USB pin adapter I've looked, so if it's really a duplicate, I missed it and will be happy to find I was wrong.) (Before you think about whether this is a duplicate, there are many questions asking how to connect a PS/2 keyboard to USB. There is a small plug-style converter around - I researched and found they should not work and I even wasted a couple of bucks getting one to be sure - and physical-only adapters, sure enough, do not work. ![]() But I have a lot of USB keyboards and rather than get another bulky keyboard, is there an adapter that takes a modern USB keyboard and converts this to a PS/2 male plug with correct PS/2 serial protocol? The one PS/2 keyboard that I have is the kind that used to cost about $5, works just well enough to show that the terminal is OK. I could get lucky and find a good keyboard for $100 or so, factoring in shipping to Australia. There was also a PC-style keyboard available. The Digital OEM keyboard was a LK 411, with a PS/2 plug. I have a DEC VT525 terminal base ( recently repaired) that requires a PS/2 keyboard.
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