[Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo

[Brian Blake]

HJL-57 keyboards:

http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/download/file.php?id=266&mode=view

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On Aug 26, 2015 8:33 PM, "Mark J. Blair" <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 26, 2015, at 17:30 , Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, there are 4 unused spots on the COCO 1 & 2 keyboards. The Coco 3
> filled thosed spots with Cntrl, Alt, F1 & F2.
> > The Coco 3 does not actually use those keys in RSDOS, but OS9 L2 is
> unusable without them.
> > I think there were "alternate" DOSs for Disk Basic that would use the
> keys, but they were never "officially" supported by Tandy. The Coco 3 was
> designed with OS9 L2 in mind and hence the extra keys.
>
> As I recall, the HJL-57 keyboard had the four extra keys, marked F1
> through F4 with two on each side of the space bar. Hence the 57 in the
> name: 57 keys, vs. 53 on the stock CoCo 1 keyboard. Both of my proposed
> layouts include all 57 keys, just with different physical placements.
>
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