I was hoping to have an update by now on the pinouts of those six chord
keysets, and which ones are working or not. Unfortunately,
Brian Cardanha has been out of town on business for the last several
weeks, so he has not been available to help me obtain the pinouts for
them yet. I bought a DB-25 to DE-9 connector cable from Fry's and used
it to plug each of the six keysets into my PC's serial port, just to see
if I'd get lucky. But I didn't get any data out of them, so I'm assuming
these (like the keyset that Jake lent me) have a different pinout. (01)
I am looking forward to giving a more successful status update soon. (02)
Jonathan (03)
Jonathan Cheyer wrote:
> Now that I have had some success in getting Augment to run in an
> emulator, there has been some interest in locating chord keysets in
> order to use with the system.
>
> As people may remember from the demo we gave at the CHM, Doug has a few
> for his own personal use. Also, Jake Feinler is lending me one which I
> used for my own setup during the demo.
>
> Doug has agreed to lend the last six extras that he has (besides his own
> personal ones that he uses) to me. Not all of them are in working
> condition, but I will start identifying which ones work and see how many
> working ones are available.
>
> Interestingly, all six keysets have a different cable type than the one
> that Jake let me borrow. Instead of a DA-15 female cable with
> non-standard wiring, they all have DB-25 male cable ends. I do not yet
> know what kind of wiring they use.
>
> I am planning on extracting the pinout information for them to see what
> kind of software drivers we will need in order to make them work with a
> modern day PC.
>
> If anyone knows the whereabouts of additional chord keysets that they
> would be willing to lend or give to the project, please contact me!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan (04)
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