Keyboards

From: cswiger <cswiger_at_wilma.widomaker.com>
Date: Sat Dec 5 13:51:52 1998

On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:

> >
> > A question for the collective wisdom and distributed awareness of
> > the list:
> >
> > Anybody ever run across parallel ASCII keyboards, something suitable
>
> Looking around here, I can spot the Gemini keyboard. That has a parallel
> Ascii interface on it. 7 data lines + strobe. So does the keyboard on a
> PERQ 1, but if you raid a PERQ 1 for its keyboard I will LART you :-).
>

Oh no, I can appreciate things that are worth more as a system than
broken up into parts

>
> At one time (long-discontinued), Maplin sold a kit for a
> parallel-interfaced Ascii keyboard.
>

Mine was a Radio Shack kit - still have the manual

>
>
> My recomendation would be to program a microcontroller to take a serial
> keyboard (possibly a PC keyboard, although then you need to have a
> scancode-> ascii table in the ROM) input and then output the parallel
> format you require.
>

Sounds better'n being 'LART'd

        Chuck
        cswiger_at_widomaker.com
Received on Sat Dec 05 1998 - 13:51:52 GMT