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5.0 out of 5 starsWorks with Gateway AnyKey keyboard
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2013
Hours of research on the web and days of experimentation with two new 64-bit Win 7 computers and twenty-year-old Gateway Anykey keyboards lead me to this conclusion: Unless you bought the PS/2-USB adapter or converter with the keyboard, finding one that works with your old keyboard is a trial-and-error process. The good news is that they are not expensive.
The consensus seems to be that simple adapters do not work. I wouldn't know, as I don't own one. I bought the Ziotek "blue cube" converter recommended and sold by [...]. It did not work very well with my treasured AnyKey keyboards (this has nothing to do with their programmability, by the way). In a test repeatedly typing about 250 words, from twelve to fifteen words had missing letters. The error rate was highly variable, and from time to time it would go crazy, spitting out gibberish. Unintentional repeats, all caps when the caps lock was not on, and more. The computers themselves were also acting up, with improper boots etc.
Microsoft's web site has a little demo that allows you to test whether your keyboard blocks certain letters when you quickly press a combination of letters. This is important for gamers (not me) and fast typists (me). I found that, like most keyboards, my AnyKey keyboards do that. It appears to me that the downfall of the blue cube in my case was that they were not talking back to the keyboard to quickly reset it after it blocked certain keys.
After reading the reviews here I bought the Adesso converter and all is well. No more skipped letters or other errors, other than my sloppy typing. Both computers have settled down also, which leads me to think that maybe the "wrong" converter can interfere with more than your keyboard.
