[Coco] CoCo Keyboards...

[Christopher Smith]

It would probably be small enough.  Well, some of them would.  Internally they're usually hooked in by ribbon cable.  The interface may not be (likely isn't) PS/2 on the other side of the ribbon.  I suspect that some of the logic to provide the PS/2 interface, or perhaps a USB interface in some cases these days, is on the boards inside of the machine.  You might need to convert whatever that is to PS/2, and at least you'd need to do something to hook into the ribbon cable, and you'd need to find a way to keep the rather flimsy keyboard from falling back into the CoCo box.  All that done, you'd have a CoCo with only a few millimeters of key travel or you'd be back to chicklets or possibly both. :)

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Louis Ciotti" <lciotti1 at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 7, 2013 6:29:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Keyboards...
> 
> Without a coco right in front of I wonder is a laptop keyboard would
> fit
> and be made to work....
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > That's another reason I want a replacement keyboard rather than an
> > external PS/2 keyboard. I don't want an empty hole where the
> > keyboard was,
> > and an external keyboard on a cable.
> >
> > I would rather have a replacement that fits inside the case. I wish
> > HJL
> > keyboards were still made. I'd prefer those to any other. I'm
> > trying to
> > find who made those keyboards for HJL, so I can get some spare
> > parts to fix
> > the one I have, and maybe see about getting a few more.
> >
> > -[ Al ]-
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Smith
> >
> >
> > I agree, for a system that isn't stored in the original case.  For
> > one
> > that is, that complicates matters.  Getting a new keyboard that
> > would fit
> > in the old case without having to attack it with a dremel may be
> > difficult.
> > :)  I guess there are a couple of interesting options in this
> > respect, but
> > nothing quick and easy that I can think of.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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Christopher Smith
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