[ltp] PS2 Mouse, USB socket: any hope?

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 18:27:12 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On Monday 09 October 2006 18:05, Laurent Gilson wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> > There were (very expensive and rare) adapters out there which
> > really had a PS/2 parsing chip inside. The last i saw got over 60
> > US $ on eBay.
> 
> AFAIK these are still out there, fairly common, and I've never seen
> one costing $60. I have one that has 2 PS/2 sockets (keyboard/mouse)
> to 1 USB plug _with_ an intelligent converter chip inside, it works
> with any hardware--I don't remember how much I paid but I would never
> have paid anywhere close to that much for it. Whoever paid $60 for
> that on eBay got screwed bigtime.

I bought the generic PS/2->USB adaptor from the URL below and it works
fine with my Logitech PS/2 keyboard. It also has a separate plug for
PS/2 mice, and it costs 2,65 EUR, which should be much less than $60
even at the current US$ exchange rate. :-)

http://tinyurl.com/f2jcf

Regards,
Tino