Keyboard key labels

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Mon Nov 25 02:17:01 2002

It was thus said that the Great Sark once stated:
>
> Actually, I've been planning on building my own. I am currently
> tracking down old, broken keyboards from terminals, etc. to get keytops
> and switches from, and I am going to canniballize a cheap PC USB
> keyboard for it's encoder chip and associated circuitry. Basically, I'm
> going to build a new key matrix from real switches, to replace that
> membrane and rubber disc thing modern keyboards use. I've done stuff
> like this before, rewiring a very old PC keyboard to replace a broken
> TRS-80 Color Computer 3 keyboard. With any luck, I'll have something
> that won't wear out nearly as fast as others, and be comfortable to
> type on as well. The only thing I might run into is contact bounce. I
> don't know if there is anything in a USB keyboard to deal with this, as
> I don't think membrane keyboards have quite the problem with contact
> bounce as mechanical switches do. Any ideas?

  IBM AT or PS/2 keyboards. The AT has a slightly better tactile feel, but
the PS/2 is easier to find and has separate editing and numeric keypad.

  And they're nearly indistructable.

  -spc (I've wore out cheaper keyboards ... )
Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 02:17:01 GMT