Restoring a Compaq Portable
tony duell
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Wed Jan 14 13:42:18 CST 2015
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> 3) I can't get the keyboard to respond at all. I tried touching the
> capacitive pads with bare fingers, anti-static bag material, etc.
> Nothing works. Solution: I don't know. I suspect the scan driver and/or
> the sense amp chips may be bad. These are Exar 22-950-3B (sense driver)
> and 22-908-93A (sense amp). Does anyone here know a decent source of
> these and/or data sheets?
These seem to be custom ICs used in most Keytronics keyboards. Your best
bet is to find another keyboard to raid if you are _sure_ they are the problem.
I have never seen data sheets for them.
Many machines used such keyboards. The TRS-80 Model 2 (TechRef available
from archive.org) did, there is a schematic of the keyboard in said manual,
but with no real data on the ICs. The driver takes in a 4 bit value (to select a
'column' and a strobe pulse, the sense amplifier outputs 8 bits for the selected
rows. Given the TRS-80 M2 diagram it should be possible to see if the
column select value and strobe are doing anything (if not, then the keyboard
microcontroller isn't running, I guess), if there is any activity on the column
outputs, and if there is any activity on the sense amplifier outputs when you
simulate a keypress.
-tony
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