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#203904 - 13/02/2004 12:23 Re: Caps & Num Lock Buttons Do Not Work [Re: tfabris]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
Clearly you haven't had the wonderful experience of being tech support for a department which just got a shipment of Gateways with AnyKey keyboards
Actually I have...I was just trying to pointing out, that there is software involved, even if it is stored in the keyboard itself. Once you know the key combination to disable macros, they aren't too much trouble.
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#203905 - 13/02/2004 12:27 Re: Caps & Num Lock Buttons Do Not Work [Re: JBjorgen]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31594
Loc: Seattle, WA
Except that I was replying to Bruno.
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#203906 - 13/02/2004 12:41 Re: Caps & Num Lock Buttons Do Not Work [Re: JBjorgen]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
That would just lead me to believe that the software was on the keyboard. The logic had to be programmed in somewhere.

True. I think Bruno is just under the impression the keyboards relied on some software PC side to work.

That was a potential benefit of them, you could move the keyboard to another system and keep all your macros.

In the era of USB keyboards and cheep flash memory, I am suprised there hasn't been a new keyboard to do this. For people on a KVM, this could be really useful.

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#203907 - 13/02/2004 13:10 Re: Caps & Num Lock Buttons Do Not Work [Re: JBjorgen]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
that there is software involved

It could be done entirely in hardware. A bunch of shift registers, some latches, some SRAM, a few other bits and bobs. It'd be pointless when a PIC is cheaper, but it could be done.
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#203908 - 13/02/2004 13:15 Re: Caps & Num Lock Buttons Do Not Work [Re: Roger]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
I don't know. The one I have came with a computer in about 1990 or so. That may have been too early for PICs, but my PIC knowledge is admittedly lacking.
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#203909 - 13/02/2004 13:47 Re: Caps & Num Lock Buttons Do Not Work [Re: wfaulk]
julf
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Registered: 01/10/2001
Posts: 1307
Loc: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
about 1990 or so. That may have been too early for PIC

The first 1-chip microcontrollers (that were designed for - surprise surprise - keyboards and stuff) I worked with came out in the early '80's.

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