From: Jim Brain (brain_at_jbrain.com)
Date: 2004-06-23 05:44:04
Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:
>Hallo allemaal,
>
>
>I have an empty 8296D and a friend of mine got the idea to build a PC in it
>and to run an emulator on it. His idea was to put a PC-keyboard in the
>original case. My idea was to remove the original keyfield and solder the C=
>to it. Lots of soldering but should work IMHO. Still some small things to
>solve left but not difficult ones.
>
>Then I got this idea: using the original keyboard and to program a
>micro-controller so it behaves like a PC-keyboard: press 'a' and it sends
>the code for 'a', press shift-R/L_cursor and it sends the code for
>left_cursor, etc., etc., etc.
>
>Question : has anybody done such or an equivalent project or knows of
>someone who did it?
>
>
>
I was starting to work on a similar project, to interface a 64/128
keyboard to a PC. I suspect the same code could be used to do a PET
keyboard.
I know there is a project online where a person gutted an SX and
installed a PC in it. As part of the install, he/she created a small
PIC interface to do as you describe for the SX keyboard.
Jim
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