Not sure what protocol that uses but it could be specific to that cable
so it almost certainly wouldn't masqueraded as a keyboard.

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
>
> > I don't think you'll find an off the shelf cable for doing
> > that. Most of them look like network devices to each of
> > the computers.
>
> I couldn't really tell. I saw this
>
> http://www.sewelld.com/UsbCable.asp
>
> and assumed it was the USB equivalent of a null modem cable.
> Maybe it's just ethernet over USB - it _is_ called a bridge.
>
> > Can't the teacher just take a floppy or a cd, or a USB
> > Storage device?
>
> You'd think so. I've been dealing with this school for 5 yrs
> and whatever I ask they say no. Now I just try to fit in
> with their rules and don't think of normal ways of doing
> things. The computers are setup according to rules set by
> the administration and there's no changing anything, except
> by them and then at no notice. The rules say you can use an
> AlphaSmart and that's it. However it's worth trying again.
> They can only say no.
>
> One year the science teacher and I tried to follow the path
> of the sun through the sky for a year at noon (the path is
> an analemma) by marking the end of the shadow of a flagpole
> on the blacktop of the playground (with a dot of
> spraypaint). The kids would see this on the playground and
> start asking questions about the earth's orbit, the seasons
> etc. The school said "You're not allowed to desecrate school
> property and if we'd wanted this in the curriculum we would
> have had one painted for you already." We did it
> surruptitiously last year, with black marker pen, which
> looked like oil smudges. No-one noticed (including the kids)
> but if you joined all the dots, you could see the analemma.
> However during the summer, they re-blacked the blacktop
> covering over a year's work. I'm doing it again this year in
> a playing field, pushing golf tees into the ground under the
> grass. No-one's noticed yet.
>
> Joe
>
>

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