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Nathan, Thank you for your reply and the link. I guess I have to really examine what the best way to go about this would be. Once I have a plan, I will bounce it off the experts on this forum. Thanks again.

Thanks Anthon, I guess I just needed a little reassuring. Since you offered, I will try not to abuse the privilege, but take you up and ask some questions if I get stuck (and I will...) I read about the busboy, but I am determined to try this little project of mine using the Arduino...

Update: I am using an ESP8266 as it's a very capable little chip for $2 and I got the PS2 side sort of done. Meaning it can read buttons and relative position of the cursor and the mouse "status". Status appears to store the buttons (up to 3) and motion direction. The x and y coordinates are...

Thank you, yes but that still forces me to add a second adapter for the CD drive. That may still be easier though, it's worth a shot.

Thank you, but that's a female 50, won't fit on the cable. I neet male to male for my application, that is why I wanted to make my own cable. I will keep searching for a deal though. So far they were crazy prices.

Hello and thank you very much for replying. I have these drives to play with: WDE18310 ST34572W ST318404LW The WD has a Force SE jumper and so does the ST31whereas the ST34 has a termination enable jumper. I know about the difference in wires but I was hoping to be able to maybe do it the...

Hello everyone, The goal is to connect a hard drive to the 6100, as I got it without one. I haven't been able to find any 50 pin drives, but I have a few 68 pin SCSI drives that I can play with. Due to the insane prices on eBay and elsewhere for a M-M 50 to 68 pin adapter, upwards of $40...

Everyone, thanks for chiming in. Due to some other projects, this is on hold until the cold weather starts (soo... like next week  :p )

Excellent, thank you very much.

Thank you all for your input. I did see the article with the STM, but I thought it was USB and I settled on PS/2 for simplicity. Since no-one said I was crazy for attempting this, I shall proceed. I will post my progress and, if successful, I will publish everything, hardware and software.

Bigmess, If you happen to see this post, I stumbled upon this on github: https://github.com/davisr/Arduino-ADB Looks like what I am trying to do and closer to my level of understanding. I think I will stick with PS/2 instead of USB, as it's a lot easier to deal with. The ADB side scares me...

Thank you very much. I am a bit surprised myself... ;) No secret at all: Digikey. It was from a 6x4 inch (or so) with 2mm pitch and soldered through pads. I totally cheated, since the horizontal pins on the HDI are spaced at 2mm, but vertically at 1.5mm. So top, middle and bottom row worked...

Does the OS allow custom modes? I am tempted to say that I will never be able to get something like 16:10 so that it would look right on an LCD. Since the video is technically capable of 1024x768, would it be possible to do say 1024x640?

Thanks trag, I will likely open it up again because the CPU is far too hot for my liking and I will try to find a heftier heatsink and adapt it in there. Maybe even throw a fan on it, as I have one of those hdd power pass-through dongles with a fan connector on it. Just have to find a quiet...

I know nothing of the PICs, I played with AVRs and STMs and I love the ESP8266, btw. But for this project, it was only you and another dude that ever even researched this. Usually, it's ADB 2 USB that shows up in searches. I think I will give this a try but I must stick with the familiar...

Bigmess, It was your blog that inspired me, but I am nowhere near your level of expertise. I have a couple of Atmegas that I can play with and some experience with AVRs, but that's probably not enough. There are examples of connecting a USB keryboard to an Arduino and I thought maybe I can...

Looks like a few have attempted to at least research this project in the past. I would really love to be able to do that, but I am an amateur at best when it comes to software, especially low-level hardware interfacing. But I think it would be really cool to have a converter that would take...

Thank you. I actually smeared the original "grease" - the white stuff, not the AS, which I know can cause trouble. I never managed to do the double-tap with the power switch. I gave up, though, as it was hurting me to put the poor ol' machine through that ordeal...

Update Step one is complete, I finished the HDI-45 to VGA adapter and I now have video. Step two is to find a set of ADB keyboard and mouse without breaking the bank. Online prices are insane, at least what I found so far. I will try locally, maybe I can find some stuff for less. I even...

Thank you very much, in retrospect, it was a fun project. I actually played around with the sense pins, now that I have them on jumpers. I can easily get 640x480 and 832x624, but not higher, by forcing rgb modes. VGA/SVGA mode also works and I am hoping to be able to get to 1024x768 in SVGA...