Re: CBM900 keyboard

From: Steve Gray <*sjgray_at_rogers.com*> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:38:02 -0700 Message-ID: <1405183082.30798.YahooMailNeo@web161301.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> · sjgray_at_rogers.com

Hi,

The CBM-II 700 monitor should handle MDA as it's basically equivalent 80x25 screen using 9x14 pixel characters.

Steve

________________________________
 From: Michał Pleban <lists@michau.name>
To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de 
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:17:25 PM
Subject: Re: CBM900 keyboard

Hello!

Anders Carlsson wrote:

> The SWoC page actually mentions "AT keyboard jack". I would have thought
> it slightly predated the AT so it rather would be XT compatible, but I
> suppose not.

Actually the AT keyboard came out in 1984 whereas this computer was
developed in 1985.

The biggest obstacle is that the keyboard interface is nonexistent on
the schematic so nothing can be checked about it. I will try to check
the traces on the mainboard to see where they lead.

Plus it turned out to be very hard to find out a working MDA/Hercules
monitor so I cannot check the video output :-(

> whether or not every key from the
> original keyboard will be mapped is another question.

That could possibily fixed by a small PIC or AVR device, if only here
was any documentation on the original keyboard...

Regards,
Michau.

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