[Coco] Keyboard adapters

[Stephen Castello]

It won't work on the EX/HX keyboards.  They're built-in and the
keyboard interface is part of the motherboard.  The keyboard itself
just has a header similar to the coco keyboard, but with wires.

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 19:36:56 -0600, "Little John" <sales at gimechip.com>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>The "Puppo" keyboard interface was an XT keyboard interface for the CoCo. 
>There was one on eBay awhile back that ended without bids....
>The currently available AT keyboard adapters won't work with XT keyboards 
>unless the XT keyboard has the xt/at switch (some did - most didn't)
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Brian Blake" <random.rodder at gmail.com>
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 7:24 PM
>Subject: [Coco] Keyboard adapters
>
>
>> Another coco3.com member posted a question that I now am interested in
>> knowing the answer to. Is there a way to interface an XT keyboard to a 
>> CoCo?
>>
>> My interest comes from the fact that I just picked up a Tandy 1000 EX 
>> (from
>> eBay) and am looking at doing another repack project - CoCo3 into the 1000
>> EX case. I'd prefer to use the EX's keyboard, but I know nothing about 
>> it's
>> construction.
>> If it's all just micro-switches, I could wire it up - be ugly inside, but,
>> who cares....
>>
>>
>> Brian

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Stephen

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