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Originally Posted by Slothie
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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware
Yes, but I am terminally lazy. If there's one electronics task I detest more than anything else, it's wiring up and then legending keyboards. And there are hundreds of thousands of old, unwanted, working, PS/2 keyboards lying around with their keys already wired up and legended.
I know this is one thing I won't be able to persuade you on, though, and it's true that anything like that would be a decidedly non-period feature.  |
You can buy cherry keycap sets for £5 and discard most keys - if someone laid out a PCB  for cherry keys we could probably simplify construction quite a bit. |
... so laying out a keyboard would be simple.
Thinking about it for the MK14 I was thinking you could make a SCRUMPI3 style keyboard with ~40 keys and several shifts to save on keys and scanning time while retaining dedicated MEM TERM ABORT and GO keys. |
Great news so it is just the layout to agree then
. My plan was to hook up my SCRUMPI3 keyboard I have made to my MK14 to test the scanning software.
I had not planned on repeating the Function keys externally just a proper ASCII (well MK14 VDU charset) for the MK14 long term i.e. what they would have needed to run a version of NIBL in Page1 - the MK14 remains a number/function pad beside it.
I assume it would be a routing nightmare to map the existing keys so it acts as both a full ASCII and supported in SCIOS... it would be interesting though.