Lake Stevens Dental wrote:
You might look at DealExtreme.com for various conectors. Free Shipping (at least to USA) and prices are great. Somehow they make it work from Hong Kong. It might take a couple weeks to get the products. I typically end up padding any order with a bunch of other gizmos and gadgets, because it's so inexpensive.I got tired of fruitless searches and was getting too impatient to wait for shipping time, so I spliced together a couple of cables I had lying around. (Easy as pie - I checked and tested to be sure, but all I really would have had to do was match the colors of the conductors.) Didn't cost me a dime! I now have a working 12" host cable that is much less bulky than the cable kits with the interchangeable plugs, and will put much less stress on the tablet's socket than the 1-piece molded adapter. The only USB keyboard I have is a Gyration compact keyboard. I didn't think it would work, since there's not enough juice to power a thumb drive and the Gyration has the added power requirement of the transmitter, but it works like a charm, even without a hub! The mouse isn't recognized, but that's okay since the tablet has the touch screen. Too bad the Gyration products don't use Bluetooth - they *are* 2.4 GHz, though. This is a workable stop-gap solution, but I'm still going to try to find a folding Bluetooth keyboard for a reasonable price. (The Apple Bluetooth keyboard, although small, doesn't save much space over my compact Gyration. I also have a protective hard plastic cover for the Gyration.) Note: my USB to PS/2 adapter cable did NOT work, even with a powered hub. Maybe it's just the model I have, but that means I can't use any of my regular PS/2 devices with the tablet. That adapter does work "out of the box" with my desktop Linux machines. Mark |
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