5 Dec
1998
5 Dec
'98
5:51 a.m.
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Oh no, I can appreciate things that are worth more as a system than
broken up into parts
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 :-).
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(a)widomaker.com