In search of Three Rivers PERQ 1 Keyboard

[Tony Duell]

On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:18 AM Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 4/30/20 2:55 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
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> > It is, I refoamed mine for VCFPNW last year.  I can take internal pictures if it'd help anyone out.
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> > - Josh
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> can you dump the firmware? or was that already done for the PERQ emulator?
> it should be some flavor of 8048


The PERQ 1 keyboard uses a semi-custom encoder IC labelled AY-3-4592.
I suspect there is a mask ROM inside that gives the key mapping and
that it was used in other keyboards as there's a PROM (74S477) between
the outputs of that encoder and the PERQ. I have a dump of that PROM,
it's in the archive of PROMs/PALs that I sent to somebody yesterday.

The PERQ 2 keyboard is a standard-ish Keytronics thing with a serial
output. That does have a ROMless microcontoller (8035?) in it, again
I've dumped the firmware ROM.

-tony

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