Re: Thinkpad keyboard/mouse connector

["Peter W. Borders" <TCBORDP@vbbusnw1.tc.cc.va.us>]

> From:           ahn@indigo2.rad.bgsm.edu (Dave Ahn)
> Subject:        Re: Thinkpad keyboard/mouse connector
> To:             etw3@columbia.edu
> Date sent:      Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:29:13 -0500 (EST)
> Copies to:      thinkpad@cs.utk.edu

> > What an amazing hassle it was to get a keyboard attached to my
> > Thinkpad.  The manual states that I need a special "keyboard/mouse
> > connector" to accomplish this.  It appears that not only is this item
> > extremely difficult to find, but at least one place I talked to wanted
> > $42.99 for it.  Ridiculous!!
> 
> I believe the adapter is called a PS/2 keyboard/mouse Y adapter.  Saw
> one at CompUSA for $5 or so.
> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave Ahn,  ahn@indigo2.rad.bgsm.edu     "When you were born you cried, and the
>                                          world rejoiced.  Try to live your life
> Medical Visualization Lab, Radiology,    so that when you die you will rejoice,
> Bowman Gray School of Medicine           and the world will cry."  -1/2 jj^2

I wish it was $5 or so at CompUSA. I bought mine there, the belkin 
model if I remember correctly, a few months ago and it was $29.95.

Pete

 


Peter W. Borders

Network Support Technician
Business Division 
Tidewater Community College

tcbordp@vbbusnw1.tc.cc.va.us