[NTLK] Using a standard PS/2 Keyboard on a MP2100

[Clu]

I actually had a Freekey once, couldn't get it to work, and sent it  
back.

Be interesting to know what the guts looked like.

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On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Newton's Café wrote:

> Wow, what an awesome device!
> But I was thinking morein a little package to install a driver and  
> use a
> standard keyboard thru a dongle... But first of all we have to know  
> how the
> FreeKey was made inside... Maybe too much I think! Someone wants to
> dissasemble his own FreeKey? Possibly not. :-)
>
>
>
> 2010/2/10 Jon Glass <jonglass at usa.net>
>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:25 AM, James Fraser
>> <wheresthatistanbul-newtontalk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> However, it seems that few FreeKeys were ever made and, so far as  
>>> I know,
>> even Frank Gruendel himself was never able to get hold of one for  
>> his own
>> Newton collection (please feel free to contradict me if this is  
>> incorrect,
>> Mr. Gruendel).  The one featured in the review was loaned to him  
>> by another
>> collector.
>>>
>>
>> He's got one now, unless he gave it away or sold it. ;-) I was given
>> one by Alex Santos, once of this list, and since I couldn't get it to
>> work with my Apple keyboards, I gave it to Frank in exchange for some
>> work on a couple of my Newtons. ;-) BTW, it truly was a nifty device.
>> :-D
>>
>> --
>>  -Jon Glass
>> Krakow, Poland
>> <jonglass at usa.net>
>>
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