[Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo

[Steve Batson]

This would be my preference over Mylar if the price was reasonable. Way back when I had my first CoCo 1, I obtained a surplus new Model 1 keyboard. I wired it's matrix for the CoCo (took several hours) an it was awesome. 



On Aug 20, 2015, at 11:46 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:

> The discussion of producing new mylar sheets has gotten me thinking... Way back in the day, I recall drooling over fancy keyboard upgrades for my CoCo 1 that were advertised in Rainbow Magazine. If I recall correctly, they were the HJL-57 keyboards. I didn't have any money, and I couldn't talk my dad into buying one, but they sure looked nice compared to that hard chiclet keyboard.
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> Has anybody considered manufacturing new mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo family, perhaps using the popular Cherry MX series keyswitches? I expect that it would be prohibitively expensive, and I doubt that the entire remaining market for such a thing would be large enough to get the cost down even to the range of high-end gaming and programmer keyboards, which can run well over a hundred bucks. But maybe I'm wrong about that, and talking about the topic for a bit might be fun anyway.
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> So, what do y'all think? I'd enjoy replacing the mushy-feeling keyboard in my CoCo 3 with a set of clicky Cherry MX blues, even if only in my imagination.
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