wdp@dukee.egr.duke.edu (William D. Palmer) (04/10/91)
Tuesday, 09 APR 91 Fellow Netters: I have seen a couple of articles lately about keyboard compatibility between XTs and ATs. Probably no one is interested, but I could not get an XT keyboard to work with an original IBM PC (ca 1982). Can anyone offer a plausible explanation? The keyboard works great on an XT, but on the PC it sometimes sends the correct letter, sometimes the wrong letter, and sometimes pressing a key will trigger a stream of meaninless characters (kind of like me writing my dissertation!). The PC works fine with its original IBM keyboard. I have the XT/AT switch on the keyboard set correctly. And I didn't plug it into the cassette port, either! Thanks, Dev Palmer wdp@dukee.egr.duke.edu Duke Electrical Engineering Room 309 Old Engineering Bldg. Durham, NC 27706 (919) 660-5282