<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 2/5/04 10:50:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, roy@flightlab.liv.ac.uk writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 RickInNoCal@aol.com wrote:<BR>
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>That rotary is a standard 'phase shift' rotary encoder, so it won't work with<BR>
>a keyboard emulator like the KE-72 without a decoder. The Knitter, which I<BR>
>have, is a bidirectional rotary switch, which will.<BR>
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It will - I use them.<BR>
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Again though, I'll qualify that with the comment that it will output a<BR>
lower case char one way, an upper case char the other.<BR>
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I stand corrected... I just remembered seeing a description of a way to use a standard rotary with a hacked keyboard (or an emulator) - you assign one pair of contacts to, say, 'a', and the other pair to 'shift', so turned one way it sends a-shift, which comes out as 'a', and the other way it sends shift-a, which comes out as 'A'. <BR>
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Richard</FONT></HTML>