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Re: [ECS] Serial vs Keyboard Input? William Biggs Sun, 4 Oct 1998 21:02:55 -0500

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Have you considered a Keyat Keyboard Port adapter?

This allows you to connect your keyboard port to a keyboard AND a serial
device. Actually you can connect up to 58 serial devices! Plus use your
keyboard at the same time.

The listing says" This allows you to input keystrokes into any application
through  a remote device with a serial interface, monitor keystokes with a
remote device, or add a keyboard to a computers serial port."

It allows serial devices to control your keyboard. Thus you could write an
ECS event that sends a string, via a serial port, to the keyboard port
adapter, and thus control the machine that way.

There are two versions
Model FA1     Standard = $99
Model FA1-E    With EEPROM to store and execute key strings for up to 31
characters x 32 strings = $150

B& B Electronics www.bb-elect.com  815-433-5100



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Walters <bwalters@fastlane.net>
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 9:45 AM
Subject: [ECS] Serial vs Keyboard Input?


>All -
>
>Anyone know of a simple TSR (or whatever) that will allow you to select
>a COM port to act as KBD and then change back on the fly?
>
>I've tried using CTTY COM1 and ECST just flashed the screen and locked
>out the serial port.  I'm asking since ECST stops all processing when
>speaking and I want to be able to delete messages from my touchscreen
>just as I can from the "local" phone.
>
>Thanks for any info anyone might have.
>
>Bill Walters
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>
>

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