Selling keyboards without the terminal

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 9:05 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> 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...
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>> If things continue as they are, people will be forced to do that, or
>> create replicas.
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>> In the past, the kb collectors would build adapters for the logic in the
>> keyboards,
>> so there was some reverse-engineering occurring
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>> http://www.kbdbabel.org/
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>> but now, the trend is to gut the electronics and replace it, using just
>> the key matrix
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>> 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.
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> 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...
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> It's awesome you've done similar with these keyboards...
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I have an old Apple Newton keyboard... would that be useful? It's just a
simple serial protocol with a table that at one point I write a program
that used the xtest extension to allow me to use it as my main keyboard
while in X11.... Would that be helpful / useful here at all?

Warner