[Coco] MC-11 Status Update

[Didier Derny]

In my country, if it is still possible to find good ps/2 mouse, qwerty 
ps/2 keyboards are not common we have to buy them overseas
most of the keyboard are just usb with a non working usb to ps/2 adapter
and azerty keyboard are not properly decoded

After having tried to find for my old machine some usb interface I'm 
finally building mine

I would love to buy Darren's Board it looks quite nice but with ps/2 I'm 
not so sure to buy one
I love his  cocoSDC and I guess his new board is also very good.

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didier

On 28/07/2015 04:01, Zippster wrote:
> Well, make that over 600.  I guess a lot of those were adapters and similar.
>
> - Ed
>
>
>> On Jul 27, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, I think most older USB keyboards will support the adapters.
>>
>> But as Al was indicating, PS2 keyboards are commonplace.  A quick ebay query turns up
>> over 6,000 listings with a wide variety of prices (starting at almost nothing) and styles.
>>
>> - Ed
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 27, 2015, at 7:51 PM, Steve Batson via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I have some old keyboards around that may work then...I guess I'll wait and see what the end state of this thing is. I would be fun to use to build up a system.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 27, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A PS/2 to USB adapter only converts the pin assignments. The keyboard has to have the circuitry within it to detect that you have attached the adapter and switch to PS/2 mode.
>>>>
>>>> That's why these adapters don't work with every keyboard.
>>>>
>>>> There are active adapters that have circuitry, they will cost a bit more money. But, you can still find PS/2 keyboards if you look on Amazon, eBay, and elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>> -[ Al ]-
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message----- On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Steve Batson via Coco wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Cool so I suspect that it would work fine with a PS2 to USB adapter.
>>>>> This sounds like a great homebrew computer that you could build up for all
>>>>> kinds of control projects and things like that
>>>>
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