On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 7:56 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. > that's awesome. I've been working to flesh out the final details of the Rainbow with a gentleman who has more of a knack for that stuff than I... It's awesome you've done similar with these keyboards... Warner
