Programmers keyboard configuration:

Use the serial port of a PC, INVERT the output (74LS04 works nicely), 7,O,1 (7 bits, Odd parity, 1 stop bit), when you press the EDIT key hold down the space key to let the 9100 know the keyboard is present. Standard Terminal program (QVT Term is the one I'm using, www.qpc.com)

Needs work, perhaps the keyboard needs to be remapped, but this works fairly well. A number of things happen that don't make sense yet, but it is closer....

I'm getting stuck in the "Messages Window" and can't get out. I get most of the lower case characters, UPPER CASE do weird things...Capital A pops me into the Messages Window for example. Need to read the programmers manual I guess....

John :-#)#

At 12:53 PM 01/07/2002 -0700, John Robertson wrote:

I didn't defeat the RESET code, all I did was plug the keyboard in just after pressing the EDIT key. Then the screen came up. It appears that the keyboard must send out a code to indicate it is RESET and the 9100 accepts this. The keyboard is sending out serial data, the question is, exactly WHAT serial code it sends. I am suspecting that it sends XT scan codes...

John :-#)#

At 03:49 PM 01/07/2002 -0400, Kev wrote:

http://www.beyondlogic.org/keyboard/keybrd.htm#1

Look at the AT to ASCII keyboard adapter. If you had a blank 68HC705J1A
MCU, you could probably have it running in 2 hours.

(So I take you you defeated the Reset code?)

Kev

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Robertson" <jrr@flippers.com>
To: <TechToolsList@flippers.com>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: 9100 keyboard!!!!!

> So, now the screen is up on the colour monitor and nothing happens ;-(. It
> seems my keyboard is not 'quite' right. I will search for an XT keyboard
> and get back to the list.
>
> Free time? It's our national holiday today so I thought I'd tackle a
couple
> of irritations...
>
> John :-#)#
>
> At 11:45 AM 01/07/2002 -0700, John Robertson wrote:
> >I just found a work around for this: Find an XT keyboard (an AT/XT will
> >work), next when you press the EDIT key on the 9100 plug the keyboard in
a
> >fraction of a second AFTER you press the EDIT key. Have your old colour
> >monitor plugged in and the EDIT window APPEARS!!!
> >
> >Whoppie!
> >
> >Thus it appears that the Fluke uses a boring old XT keyboard with the
> >ACTIVE RESET wire that was dropped in the later keyboards wiring cable. I
> >am next going to attempt to run the wire from the 9100 directly to the
> >RESET line of the 8048 in my old keyboard and see if that works...
> >
> >John :-#)#
>