Re: Selling keyboards without the terminal

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 10/20/18 5:16 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> I'm surprised there aren't a boatload of arduino projects to create a PC
> keyboard to each of the classics...

If things continue as they are, people will be forced to do that, or create 
replicas.

In the past, the kb collectors would build adapters for the logic in the 
keyboards,
so there was some reverse-engineering occurring

http://www.kbdbabel.org/

but now, the trend is to gut the electronics and replace it, using just the key 
matrix

I've been working a lot with MAME developers doing emulations of terminals. A 
side effect
of that is documenting the keyboard protocols and key maps for valued and 
not-so-valued but
rare terminal keyboards like the ones on Qumes.