FalloutBoy
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Hello,
I was wanting to know if there was any form of IC inside of these as I have been reading conflicting reports, some say there is an IC inside the converter under a blob of black stuff, sort of like the IC setup you find in singing greeting cards, others have said you don't need to do anything accept hook the wires from the USB end to the correct lines on the PS/2 connector, and even more controversy abounds about the fact that the keyboards actually have the ability to speak PS/2 or USB as the IC used in them can speak both and auto adjusts.
So now I am really confused, I have a circuit for PS/2 conversion to a non PS/2 computer system which I want to use and of course PS/2 keyboards are harder to come by these days - so I though I'd go for a USB one but if the little adapter green blob thing just transfers wires around the place like some people have said and the keyboard does the work of detecting and adjusting then provided there is no data loss I could wire the keyboard directly into the final adapter.
Does any one know actual facts about these converters as opposed to supposition I.E has anyone actually melted one down and if there is a black blob melted that down to see what's underneath it - I really would like to know what the actual answer is to this one.
Cheers.
I was wanting to know if there was any form of IC inside of these as I have been reading conflicting reports, some say there is an IC inside the converter under a blob of black stuff, sort of like the IC setup you find in singing greeting cards, others have said you don't need to do anything accept hook the wires from the USB end to the correct lines on the PS/2 connector, and even more controversy abounds about the fact that the keyboards actually have the ability to speak PS/2 or USB as the IC used in them can speak both and auto adjusts.
So now I am really confused, I have a circuit for PS/2 conversion to a non PS/2 computer system which I want to use and of course PS/2 keyboards are harder to come by these days - so I though I'd go for a USB one but if the little adapter green blob thing just transfers wires around the place like some people have said and the keyboard does the work of detecting and adjusting then provided there is no data loss I could wire the keyboard directly into the final adapter.
Does any one know actual facts about these converters as opposed to supposition I.E has anyone actually melted one down and if there is a black blob melted that down to see what's underneath it - I really would like to know what the actual answer is to this one.
Cheers.