Subject: Re: VAXstation Keyboards / Mice
To: Steve Hobbs <ee95seh@brunel.ac.uk>
From: Michael Kukat <michael@camaronet.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/24/1999 22:03:37
Hi !

> Does anybody know the specs for the interfaces (i.e. would it be possible
> to bodge a PS/2 or IBM PC keyboard / mouse to work???).

The pinouts: http://www.camaronet.de/download/vax-pinout.html
The specs:   keyboard specs (LK201) somewhere in the hardware reference section
of the NetBSD pages

PC components don't match the requirements, keyboard and mouse use a
bidirectional async serial interface at 4800 baud or so. The protocol is
DEC-specific. But the only tip to get at least a keyboard: They are nearly all
the same on the VAXstations. LK201 is the standard, also used on VTxxx terminal
series, you can also connect a LK401, it has some more keys.

so long.. Michael