[Coco] USB keyboard interface for CoCo

[Bill Pierce]

Remembering that I had an old AT/PS2 adapter and a PS2/USB adapter, I plugged them into my Eagle AT Keyboard interface and it was No Go.
The Eagle must do something slightly different from the other AT KB interfaces. I know it has a rom that runs a basic program on power up to select the key config and to boot OS9 or basic. But I know nothing of how the other interfaces work.
The only other thing could be my AT/PS2 adapter might be too "short". The AT plug on the Eagle has a real long barrel and the jack to the interface is deep. The adapter has a much shorter barrel and doesn't go far before the rubber casing hits the jack. I may be able to peel the rubber back some and get it to work.

Bill P

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-----Original Message-----
From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Dec 7, 2012 6:44 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] USB keyboard interface for CoCo


On 12-12-07 04:03 PM, James Dessart wrote:
> I'd love to see a USB keyboard adapter for the CoCo. While I've got an
> AT keyboard and the Cloud-9 adapter there are so many more varieties
> of USB keyboards and they're easy to get ahold of in case of hardware
> failures.

I have an AT/PS2 adapter and a PS2/USB adaptor stacked into my AT 
keyboard adapter. It's been working fine with any USB keyboard I've 
thrown at it.


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