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May 12, 2011 at 5:38 pm #167344mike2000Member
Is it possible to connect a Dell RT7D20 keyboard to the NC20? I’ve tried without success and there’s nothing in the Samsung NC20 manual about this. I have a lot of numbers to input which is faster on an external keyboard
May 12, 2011 at 7:49 pm #218950jeepers01Participantmike2000 – Welcome to the forum
You might get away with a PS/2 to USB converter depending on the power requirement of the Dell keyboard. Else a signal converter may be required and it may be cheaper to get a USB keyboard.
Hope this helps
May 12, 2011 at 8:08 pm #218953__spc__MemberUSB keyboards at 4.99UKP from places like Wilkinsons etc. (Texet brand – which is fine, as it’ll only get drowned in coffee like mine did!)
May 12, 2011 at 8:47 pm #218954mike2000MemberThanks for advice. Connecting up via USB port with PS2 didn’t work which prompted the query. Will try other options and report back on this thread in due course.
March 2, 2012 at 6:41 pm #218951G6JPGMemberRather than a full-size keyboard (either PS/2 via an adapter – which I presume is what the one you’ve been trying to use without success – or USB), if the main reason is you want to enter a lot of numbers, have you considered a numeric keypad? I have seen them very cheap (I _think_ I’ve even seen them in poundshops), or for a little more you can get them with extras, such as USB hub (so you don’t use up a USB port), card readers, and so on. Smaller to carry around than a full external keyboard.
Getting Num Lock to be on for the external one and not for the internal keyboard is an interesting challenge, though – ideally borrow an external numpad and play before you buy, if you can. (I’m not sure if I succeeded in the end or not; since my requirement was for the entry of unusual characters – I’m sufficiently sad that I know the codes for a lot of them! – I found a utility called diacrit [http://www.sandrila.co.uk/diacrit/%5D easier to use.)
August 19, 2014 at 11:06 pm #218952G6JPGMember@G6JPG 111047 wrote:
[]Getting Num Lock to be on for the external one and not for the internal keyboard is an interesting challenge, though – ideally borrow an external numpad and play before you buy, if you can. (I’m not sure if I succeeded in the end or not; since my requirement was for the entry of unusual characters – I’m sufficiently sad that I know the codes for a lot of them! – I found a utility called diacrit [http://www.sandrila.co.uk/diacrit/%5D easier to use.)
If`you’re`sad`for`knowing`lots`of`codes,`I`am`too!`I`know`diacrit`well`-`I`know`the
author,`Paul`Herbert.I`ve’recently`come`across`another`such`utility:`AllChars`(http://allchars.zwolnet.com/).`With`that,`you`just`press`_and`release_`the`Ctrl`key,`then`1`then`2,`and`you`get
½,`Ctrl`_then_`’`then`e`for`é,`and`many`others`similar.`(For`example,`guess`what`you
do`to`get`±.)[Apologies`-`my`keyboard’s`playing`up,`no`spacebar`among`other`things!`(Nothing`to
do`with`AllChars,`though.)] -
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