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Posted by pop on March 3, 2007, 9:39 pm
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I agree with you Ben!
I have the old IBM 101 original keyboards on all three of my
computers... one of those keyboards has the old AT connector and At/PS2
adapter.
China is so proud that they can make or counterfeit anything. Why can't
they duplicate the feel of those old keyboards? Why can't they build a
keyboard in which you can spill coffee and the keyboard still works?
Hmmmph!
Carl
Ben Myers wrote:
> Unfortunately, I suspect that over time, your experiences with the HP notebook
> and the eMachine keyboard will be duplicated many times over. The industry is
> doing its very best to kill off the old time 1987-vintage PS/2 ports, just as
it
> did the large AT keyboard connector and serial mice earlier.
>
> Your only choices are to try other PS/2-to-USB adapters, or to get the USB
> equivalent of the eMachine keyboard. I have the same long-term problem with
> the old-timey clickity-clack clicky 101-key IBM PS/2 keyboard which I love
> dearly. No, I do not love it in any special way. It's just that the touch is
> absolutely the best ever... Ben Myers
>
> On 2 Mar 2007 23:17:53 -0800, terrispann@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> I recently bought a HP Pavilion DV8000 laptop with Windows XP Home
>> Edition installed. The DV8000 doesn't come with a PS2 port so I used
>> the PS2 to USB converter in order to hook up an external keyboard
>> (Emachine 9021 Mutimedia) then I receive an "USB Device Not
>> Recognized" error. I was able to hook the EMachine Keyboard up to my
>> mom's older Gateway Desktop via both the PS2 connection and the USB
>> (using the adapter) and it worked fine both times just not on my
>> laptop.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this keyboard to work with
>> this laptop? I find the "Cut, Paste & Copy" keys invaluable and after
>> looking at the different keyboards out there that have these options I
>> found that the EMachine key boards suited me best.
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