[Coco] keyboards

[Ron Klein]

As a reminder to everyone, Jim Brain did some research on a replacement
keyboard membrane for the Coco 3 (with hopes of making something generic
enough to work with a Coco 2).  It sounds like he had something that would
work as a direct replacement but lack of community interest seems to have
shelved this idea.  The solution would allow us to keep the stock keyboards
rather than purchase and retrofit a 3rd party one.

Jim -- please correct me if I'm wrong, but you were estimating the cost at
approximately $60, right?  If there's a way to wire a new keyboard matrix,
who is willing to do that and at what cost?

The days of buying cheap Coco's to use for keyboard replacements are
dwindling rapidly.  While there are still some great deals on Coco 2's,
Coco 3's can be quite expensive.  A question might be can one start with a
Coco 2 mylar and modify it to work as a replacement for a Coco 3 mylar by
hand wiring some additional keys/connections?  Even if it could be done, I
hate to see any Coco 2's be shelved over a missing mylar.

I know Cloud-9 makes some great PS/2 keyboard adapters (as I have a
couple).  I am still in the camp of wanting to keep/save an original
keyboard if I can.


-Ron


On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 9:04 AM, camillus gmail <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'll let you know Brett,
>
> But I think that if the contacts are reachable we can do whatever we want.
> The layout is personal, if someone is really want the exact coco layout
> then a new pcb needs to be made, but even that is not a deal breaker.
>
> This deal is cheaper the buying the switches, and the caps are there (a
> few exceptions(coco special layout)noted)
>
> So I strongly advice to buy one if you need something in the future, it is
> after all still usable for a normal pc.
>
> cb
>
> On 7/23/2017 11:12:12 AM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> sounds like an interesting project. I have to work on replacing my
> (partially) failing keyboard also. Itll be interesting to see if the
> internal board could be rewired into a coco style matrix.
>
> brett
>
> On Jul 22, 2017 10:36 PM, "camillus gmail" wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is a chance in a lifetime, to get a cheap good BLUE CHERRY SWITCH
> > keyboard.
> >
> > Copy & Paste the link and see for yourself.
> >
> > I ordered one and will see how hard is is to adapt it to a coco. ( coco3
> > in my case )
> >
> >
> >
> > cb
> >
> >
> > https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13785&cl=res&utm_
> > source=170722_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=
> > 13785&utm_campaign=170722_saturday
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