[Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo

[Zippster]

For sure.  But if ease, economy, and practicality were the goal, none of us would be here.  :)

We’d all just buy a windows box from Walmart and be done with it.

But yeah, this project looks prohibitively expensive.

- Ed


> On Aug 21, 2015, at 7:52 AM, Mathieu Chouinard <chouimat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's easier to get a wasd jeyboard and a ps2 to coco keyboard adapter ...
> On Aug 21, 2015 8:37 AM, "Zippster" <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to see this as well.  They would be expensive though.
>> Without digging too hard, I came up with the following prices…
>> 
>> Cherry keyswitches (57) = $85.50
>> Keycap set = $30
>> 
>> Add to that a PCB with a CPLD on it to remap the keys to what the CoCo
>> expects = $25 (parts)
>> 
>> So we’re looking at ~ $140 for just the basic parts for such an item.
>> Then you’d have to assemble it.
>> I’m not sure how much could be done with volume discounts to get this down.
>> 
>> So, not cheap, but they could be made super nice.  :)
>> 
>> - Ed
>>