ASCII (Apple //e, specifically) to USB HID keyboard?

I've done it a couple of times, only I used a rather "brute force" method... I was disappointed with the low quality of modern USB keyboards, and I wanted something better on my Macintosh. I got ahold of a Zenith terminal keyboard from a surplus dealer(unencoded matrix type), and I loved the feel of the keys (same style keyboard mechanism as in the Z100). I took apart a junky Compaq USB keyboard, and traced out the matrix. Then, I took a dremel tool and cut all the traces on the back of the Zenith keyboard, and wired it up in the same matrix as the Compaq keyboard, and hooked it up to the Compaq keyboard's encoder board. Voila! Zenith USB keyboard. Of course, I was originally intending to build a case for it (all I ever had was the bare keyboard mechanism) but I haven't gotten around to it. I've used it daily for the last two years, it's just sitting on the desk, no case, lote of little wires connecting to the exposed encoder board. But it works. I have also done this to an Apple IIe keyboard, connecting it to a PS/2 style keyboard encoder. Definitely not the elegant way to do it, but it works, and it's "easy". -Ian