[Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo

[Michael Brant]

Camillus, I would be willing to pay that much personally for at least 1 of
them.  Possible a second one to have as a backup.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:52 PM, camillus <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com> wrote:

> just for info, I contacted a company for mx switches caps, and the price
> was over a $100. This was for a 59 key set  coco3 ( 2 extra F3 and F4 keys).
>
> Even when ordered by 50 sets the price would come down but not enough to
> be ok. I do not expect people gonna pay more then $150 for an inplace real
> switch keyboard.
> cb
>
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> On 8/21/2015 1:11:40 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That was my thought exactly. Easily reprogrammable for any keycap map.
>
> - Ed
>
>
> > On Aug 21, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Brian Blake wrote:
> >
> > On 8/21/2015 1:56 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> >> The issue with keycaps made for PC keyboards is that the CoCo's layout
> is different. A-Z and a few other keys are the same, but 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0,
> :, ;, and - and all have different shifted functions, and then there are
> the CoCo's BREAK, CLEAR and @ keys. So, custom legends are necessary.
> That's why I'll be contacting a keycap manufacturer to see if semi-custom
> keycaps are financially practical at this small quantity.
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that's why Ed is putting a CPLD on it, to account for
> the mapping differences - which I hadn't thought of in my previous rant....
> >
> >
> > Brian
> >
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