[Coco] keyboard

[camillus]

Hi all,


Why not put the effort to design a real keyboard with cherry keys for the coco's. The PCB would be the cost I guess. The keys are still around from 1.5 to 3.0 $ a piece.

The coco 3 has 57 keys so that would be 85 to 171.
I guess the PCB would be 25 to 35, makes a quick estimate of 171 + 35 = 201.

Now this sounds a lot but this is when you build a proto type. If keys are bought by the 3000 and that would make 50 boards with 60 keys ( 3 spare not decoded ), my guess is that it would come down 50%.

100 $ for a solid board  is not so exaggerated my opinion.

Of course the PS2 AT converters from Dana and/or cloud 9 are still cheaper  and have some added features.

I will get in to this and make some real calculations, see if that would lead into something reasonable.

cb  
 


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