PS/2 Keyboard adapter for TRS-80? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Jan 2012

----- Original Message:

Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:56:28 -0200
From: "Alexandre Souza - Listas" <pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com>

...
    I don't have a Mod IV. But if I build something
here in Brazil, will you 
 be able to duplicate it there? 
As long as the instructions aren't in Portuguese ;-)

You might also talk to Jim Brain; he had/has/will have a PS/2 > matrix kbd
adapter for CBM machines and I assume that it would just be a matter of
revising the matrix layout for a Mod IV.

http://store.go4retro.com/c-key-keyboard-adapter/

I gather that although the old version is still available he's more or less
abandoned it and is working on a more flexible USB version now.

Someone else is also working on a cheap and simple version for a PET, but
there's always room for one more, especially if it actually appears ;-)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Hartman" <alhartman at yahoo.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 6:11 PM
Subject: PS/2 Keyboard adapter for TRS-80?

...
  Does anyone on the list know if there is an adapter
for TRS-80s (Model
 I/III/IV) to use PS/2 Keyboards?

 Cloud-9 makes one for the Color Computer, but the keyboard matrix between
 the two families are slightly different.

 My friend has a Model IV with a bad keyboard (the thin film ribbon is
 damaged) and replacement keyboards don't come up on eBay all that often.

 Thanks!

 Al Hartman 