On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 9:05 PM Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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... >
I have an old Apple Newton keyboard... would that be useful? It's just a simple serial protocol with a table that at one point I write a program that used the xtest extension to allow me to use it as my main keyboard while in X11.... Would that be helpful / useful here at all? Warner
