[Coco] COCO keyboard connectors and plastic ribbon cables?

[John E. Malmberg]

On 6/6/2020 6:56 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Is there a reasonable source for the COCO keyboard connectors and 
> plastic ribbon cable?
> 
> I got an idea to try to replace my broken COCO 2 keyboard with a Archer 
> "Special Purchase" Cat # 277-1025 58 position keyboard.

I have two of them to play with.

> The one part that I don't have is a ribbon cable to plug into the 
> computer keyboard socket, and and a similar one to place on the 
> electronics that I plan to put on the computer.
> 
> Gives me a chance to learn how to program a cheap PIC controller.

Having trouble finding a cable and connector for the keyboard.

The closest cable I can find is A Digikey 0.050 Inch / 1.27 mm pitch.

They do not have a connector for it.  The closest that I can find is 
0.040 inch / 1.25 mm pitch from Digikey.

I am not sure that either of those two are matches in any case.

The alternative is what I read someone else did was to grind down a PCB 
board finger edge to fit the socket.

Or figure out a way to splice a new connector on to the Color computer. 
I really would like to avoid that.

Regards,
-John