[Coco] CoCo keyboard connector

[Kevin Zee]

Check these out:
http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/category/300/Keypads/1.html

Hope it helps,
Kevin

On 3/2/2012 11:29 PM, haywire666 at aol.com wrote:
> I'd really like a numeric keypad for my robot project. Were any external numeric keyboards made for the coco?
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> Much like the heathkit hero robot had, I'd like a keypad for entering in functions or commands.
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> Or does anyone make something like that now or interested in making something like that now?
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> Its on my list of things to do, or research, but if I could buy one I'd be all for it...
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> Steven
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen H. Fischer<SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 9:19 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo keyboard connector
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> Hi,
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> It may take a little work, as Maltedmedia still is being organized.
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> ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/MANUALS/TANDY/HARDWARE/
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> is the starting point to look.
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> ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/MANUALS/TANDY/HARDWARE/TANDY_HW/COCO/Color%20Computer%203%20Service%20Manual%20(19xx)(Tandy)(pdf).7z
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> That is the CoCo 3 one but I did not find the CoCo 2 one.
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> I think that they are also somewhere else on the Web.
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> SHF
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce W. Calkins"<brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo keyboard connector
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>> ----- Original Message -----
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>> From: "Allen Huffman"
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>>> Hey, is there a tech manual online somewhere? I'm interested in how the
>>> CoCo keyboard connector works. I know it went to a thin mylar connector
>>> for the CoCo 3, but wasn't it a ribbon cable for the CoCo 1?
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>>> Are the CoCo keys just switches, that open/close contacts and it's read
>>> as an X by Y matrix of switches?
>>> -
>>> Allen Huffman -
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>> The thin Mylar connector came out with the "283" "F" board CoCo 1 and
>> continued through the 2 and 3.  The keyboard was a 7 by 8 matrix of SPST
>> momentary contact switches.  I rebuilt two "real" keyboards for my "E"
>> board CoCo 1.  I actually wore out the first.
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>> Bruce W.
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