[Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo

Michael Brant brant.michael.l at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 23:30:20 EDT 2015


Steve i am with you I type by touch as well.  Although the main part that
messes me up on the CoCo is the quote.  If the the layout was closer to
typical pc layouts i would prefer that but i would take either way.
On Aug 21, 2015 11:17 PM, "Steve Batson via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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