20 Oct
2018
20 Oct
'18
8:11 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 9:05 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 7:56 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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
On 10/20/18 5:16 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
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'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.