[Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo

[Mathieu Chouinard]

It's easier to get a wasd jeyboard and a ps2 to coco keyboard adapter ...
On Aug 21, 2015 8:37 AM, "Zippster" <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to see this as well.  They would be expensive though.
> Without digging too hard, I came up with the following prices…
>
> Cherry keyswitches (57) = $85.50
> Keycap set = $30
>
> Add to that a PCB with a CPLD on it to remap the keys to what the CoCo
> expects = $25 (parts)
>
> So we’re looking at ~ $140 for just the basic parts for such an item.
> Then you’d have to assemble it.
> I’m not sure how much could be done with volume discounts to get this down.
>
> So, not cheap, but they could be made super nice.  :)
>
> - Ed
>
>
> > On Aug 21, 2015, at 7:08 AM, Steve Batson via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > This would be my preference over Mylar if the price was reasonable. Way
> back when I had my first CoCo 1, I obtained a surplus new Model 1 keyboard.
> I wired it's matrix for the CoCo (took several hours) an it was awesome.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Aug 20, 2015, at 11:46 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
> >
> >> The discussion of producing new mylar sheets has gotten me thinking...
> Way back in the day, I recall drooling over fancy keyboard upgrades for my
> CoCo 1 that were advertised in Rainbow Magazine. If I recall correctly,
> they were the HJL-57 keyboards. I didn't have any money, and I couldn't
> talk my dad into buying one, but they sure looked nice compared to that
> hard chiclet keyboard.
> >>
> >> Has anybody considered manufacturing new mechanical keyboard upgrades
> for the CoCo family, perhaps using the popular Cherry MX series
> keyswitches? I expect that it would be prohibitively expensive, and I doubt
> that the entire remaining market for such a thing would be large enough to
> get the cost down even to the range of high-end gaming and programmer
> keyboards, which can run well over a hundred bucks. But maybe I'm wrong
> about that, and talking about the topic for a bit might be fun anyway.
> >>
> >> So, what do y'all think? I'd enjoy replacing the mushy-feeling keyboard
> in my CoCo 3 with a set of clicky Cherry MX blues, even if only in my
> imagination.
> >>
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> >> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> >> http://www.nf6x.net/
> >>
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