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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: 2PacMan on June 14, 2005, 08:17:44 am
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Just a quick question about the IPAC. Why does it have that keyboard passthrough port on it? I just have my keyboard plugged into the regular port on the computer with my IPAC plugged into the USB port and both appear to be working fine.
Am i missing something? Why would you plug the keyboard into the IPAC??
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I use DOS, and AFAIK the IPac won't work in DOS with a USB connection (maybe it works with more recent motherbaords that recognize USB keyboards, but that's not me) so it's easier for me to avoid USB and use the keyboard passthrough.
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it's for a pure ps2 setup - i.e. no usb ipac and no usb keyboard
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Oh, i see now...ok, thanks!
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Is it safe to assume that my IPAC ps/2 would play nicely alongside a USB keyboard? Just to clarify, I want to make the standard ps/2 connection with my IPAC, but instead of plugging another ps/2 keyboard into the pass-through, I want to hook up a USB keyboard.
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it should do. usb and ps2 connectors use different irq's so they wouldnt interfer with one another :o
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Is it safe to assume that my IPAC ps/2 would play nicely alongside a USB keyboard? Just to clarify, I want to make the standard ps/2 connection with my IPAC, but instead of plugging another ps/2 keyboard into the pass-through, I want to hook up a USB keyboard.
Yes, that will work fine. The computer sees two keyboards and they both work.
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Is it safe to assume that my IPAC ps/2 would play nicely alongside a USB keyboard? Just to clarify, I want to make the standard ps/2 connection with my IPAC, but instead of plugging another ps/2 keyboard into the pass-through, I want to hook up a USB keyboard.
I have mine set up exactly the opposite, but as Mark says, it works just fine.
-- Chris