[Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo

Steve Batson steve_batson at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 21 23:17:18 EDT 2015


I was thinking people wanted the keys on this keyboard to match the CoCo original keyboard. But since most are used to PC keyboards, that layout with re-mapping would work fine. I'm a touch typist myself and use the PC all day at work, so PC layout would be great...but I'd be fine either way.



On Aug 21, 2015, at 7:46 PM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is the issue. And that's why the CPLD is going to be there, to remap
> those keys to display those keys on the Coco. Much the same way the Cloud9
> interface dies with their adapter.
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> On Aug 21, 2015 9:30 PM, "Steve Batson via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
>> 
>> I think the issue with the keycaps is what's printed on them. PC keycaps
> aren't exactly the same as CoCo for some of the key's with 2 characters on
> them and Some that have a single key. CoCo has it's own @ key, most PC
> keyboards have the @ on the same key as the 2.
>> 
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