[Coco] OS9 68K, MM/1 software and questions

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Wellany software with direct access would nod work . Dunno if they exist

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> On Jan 6, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
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>> On 01/06/2016 02:30 PM, Zippster wrote:
>> Just briefly looking at the protocols it looks like a pretty simple conversion.
>> 
>> - Ed
> 
> I'm wondering if it can be done in software with a new keyboard driver.  I believe the physical interface is just one of the UARTs built into the main board.  I don't remember if it's the one in the 68070 itself or the 68901.  But without looking into it too deeply, it would appear that re-writing the keyboard driver would be sufficient to work with AT-type scancodes.  Or am I missing something?
> 
> JCE
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>>> On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, David Ladd wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ​Well the PC/AT style keyboard connector was used for both XT and AT
>>>> keyboards.  Sadly in this case only keyboards that work on the MM/1 are
>>>> those keyboards that still support the XT interface and scan codes.  Sadly
>>>> in this case would need some form of active adapter to convert modern
>>>> AT/PS-2 keyboards to XT style use.​
>>> I picked up a couple of AT --> XT adapters for a very small sum several years ago.  I think it was through the N8VEM group.
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