[Coco] COCO 1 16-3001 keyboard adapter

[Al Hartman]

It makes me wince that you destroyed an irreplaceable, repairable keyboard.

I wish we could find a source of generic keyboards that a PCB could be made 
for to adapt them to Coco's. I'm still trying to find out who made the HJL 
keyboard for them.

-[ Al ]-

-----Original Message----- 
From: Joe Grubbs

I did this very thing for my 4K CoCo when I installed the "melted" keyboard. 
I didn't want to modify that precious motherboard, so I sacrificed the 
chicklet keyboard's ribbon cable by cutting off one of the FFC IDC ends. 
Then I got the properly size female FPC style connector (16 pin 2.5mm pitch) 
to solder onto the ribbon cable. So basically I have an adapter cable that 
my newer style keyboard simply plugs into.

I got the FPC connector from Mouser. I'll dig through my invoices and find 
the right part number. Or you can use their parametric search to narrow down 
the correct choice.