Introduction: DIY Old Keyboard 5-pin DIN to PS2 Converter

About: Masters in Chemical Engineering University of Nottingham Experienced Process Engineer

Last Week at 2am in the night in the midst of submitting an important assignment suddenly many of my keyboard keys turned faulty.
As all shops were closed I had to thought of some way.
In my junk I found my old DIN-5 keyboard for my old Pentium II
I took me an hour to convert it to PS2

Step 1:

My Old Keyboard with a DIN-5 pin

Step 2:

I cut the old and my existing keyboard wires

Step 3:

With the help of a Multimeter I determined pin no. with its corresponding colour

Step 4:

Join the wires with each other with respect to its purpose not its colour i-e clock with clock, data with data etc.

Step 5:

Tape it up and
VOILA!
Your DIY PS2 keyboard.

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