//e as a keyboard?

[cyllin@aol.com (cyllin ohmsford)]

Hi all.  I've been experimenting with my //e enhanced for a while, 
mostly in null-modem networking to my PC for file transfers.  In doing 
so, I found myself wondering if it is possible to write drivers to use 
the //e as an external keyboard for my PC.  I briefly considered 
hard-wiring an interface to the keyboard decoder, but I don't have the 
electronics knowledge I'd need.  This seemed to rule out the possibility 
of using the keyboard connector on my PC motherboard.  But you could 
have drivers for keyboard input using a null-modem connection over the 
serial ports, using, say, COM1 and the SSC port.  I've gotten file 
transfers to work just fine, but that's only simple serial transfers.  
For DOS, you'd need to pass the input to the command interpreter, 
which would best be done by a TSR, rather than passing each complete 
line as a parameter to a second command shell.  (And I'm not even going 
to think about Windows.)  Does anyone know of work having been done on a 
project along those lines, or would anyone be interested in working on 
it?

cyllin@cdc.net