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It is two way, but the clock is always provided by the keyboard.

PS/2 devices all have pull-up resistors as the only thing driving the lines high are those resistors.

The mcu on either side only ever pull it low and never high.

http://www.lucadavidian.com/2017/11/15/interfacing-ps2-keybo...

Then perhaps IBM's keyboards somehow push the clock closer to the limit (16.7kHz, I believe) than motherboards' controllers can handle? Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any measurements of different keyboards' clock frequencies.

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