Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:13:18 +0100 From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> Subject: Re: Commodore keyboards and PCs Ah, I misunderstood; I thought you meant just relabel the keys. Mind you, rewiring the matrix would make the keyboard incompatible with the C64 (although it'd be a relaxing project for a Saturday afternoon...) I didn't mean that it _had_ to be defunct, just that if you only had a non-repairable C64 this'd be a good way to have its equivalent; if your PC had video out as many of them do these days, you could even hook it up to a Commodore monitor for the real look&feel. But if all you need is input from a few buttons or switches like for a dedicated MP3 player for example, using the guts from a keyboard is a quick & easy way to go (as ethan described); have done that too for a few projects. Interesting to see how they've shrunk over the years, from 2 or 3 LSI and a half-dozen TTL glue chips to a tiny blob of epoxy... mike