You can get a cheapo keyboard at the computer shows for $4.00 that is what I
paid for a brand new at keyboard and $3.75 for a ps/2 keyboard that they
seem to always have out there for the past 4 years! YOu can get ps2/at
adapters out there for $1.75 that work.
It sounds like a huge thing to have a keyboard hooked up as cheap as they
are I would not worry about it. Where I use to work we threw out over 100 at
keyboards and 95% of them worked. Also if you do have to get back into the
machine and reset stuff you need a keyboard anyways right?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill <selinux@home.com>
To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
Date: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] 486's and keyboards
>On Sunday 10 February 2002 23:24, you wrote:
>> They were called dummy keyboards and they were really expensive at the
>> time. Try the earlier suggestion of gutting an old keyboard for the cable
>> and circuitry.
>> throw it in a cheapo R.S. plastic case and be done with it.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>Well the "magic word" was "dummy keyboards" ... and they are appropriately
>named. The ones I found were $136 for a keyboard / mouse combo. I can get a
>brand new keyboard & mouse for about $15 and just plug 'em in and forget
>about 'em. After all, I'm not going to actually use them ... so I don't
care
>if all the keys have caps on them or if the mouse has lice. I was thinking
>the whole deal would go for $10-$15 and at that price they made sense. At
>$136, the pricing seems absurd almost to the point of being funny.
>
>Almost.
>
>Bill
>
>
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