[Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo

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Ok Mark, if your going to do it I’ll back away slowly…   :)

I like the CoCo3 arrow key arrangement myself.

- Ed


> On Aug 21, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
> 
> I'll do a bit of research today to look into the cost of semi-custom keycaps. I'm targeting 20 piece quantity, because that triggers a price break on the keyswitches. I still need to look into the connector differences on the various machines, and I won't be able to take apart machines to look at them until tonight.
> 
> If you had to choose one keyboard layout to rule them all, do y'all prefer the CoCo2 or CoCo3 arrow key arrangement?
> 
> If this starts to look remotely feasible, then I'll look into the cost of sheet metal fabrication in my area. Hopefully there's a shop with reasonable rates nearby that can do laser or waterjet cutting to make a proper MX support plate with CoCo mounting ears. I can do both mechanical and PCB design myself.
> 
> And if it looks actually feasible, maybe I could launch the build as a Kickstarter, so I wouldn't risk losing the production cost of 15 keyboards out of pocket if there wasn't sufficient real interest to cover the production run. I'd want to make a small profit, but I wouldn't expect to make eating-money off of this.
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> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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