18 May
2020
18 May
'20
1:40 p.m.
I would absolutely be interested in this - while I'd love to use original hardware
where possible, it's not always easy to get peripherals at the same time as machines.
A long term dream of mine is to build some sort of general-purpose box that can make
connections to arbitrary vintage computer keyboard/mouse/video ports, and connect in to
modern HDMI & USB peripherals to make it easier to just pull a machine off the shelf
and get going.
On May 17, 2020, at 5:13 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Gentlepeople,
I've been having problems with broken LK201s, so as a workaround I created an adapter
that connects to a standard PC USB keyboard and makes it look like an LK201. It's
based on an Arduino (specifically, Adafruit Trinket M0, an amazingly tiny yet powerful
small microprocessor).
It's working at this point, though it needs a few small software tweaks to make it
complete. I'm going to turn my breadboard into something slightly more polished.
Question to the list: is this something that would be of interest to others? If yes, I
can make the design available. Perhaps the PCB layout and parts list. I don't think
I want to get into building units for others, though.
paul