Selling keyboards without the terminal

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 7:56 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

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> On 10/20/18 5:16 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> > 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.
>

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...

Warner