I would absolutely be interested in this - while I'd love to use original hardware where possible, it's not always easy to get peripherals at the same time as machines. A long term dream of mine is to build some sort of general-purpose box that can make connections to arbitrary vintage computer keyboard/mouse/video ports, and connect in to modern HDMI & USB peripherals to make it easier to just pull a machine off the shelf and get going.
> On May 17, 2020, at 5:13 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Gentlepeople, > > I've been having problems with broken LK201s, so as a workaround I created an > adapter that connects to a standard PC USB keyboard and makes it look like an > LK201. It's based on an Arduino (specifically, Adafruit Trinket M0, an > amazingly tiny yet powerful small microprocessor). > > It's working at this point, though it needs a few small software tweaks to > make it complete. I'm going to turn my breadboard into something slightly > more polished. > > Question to the list: is this something that would be of interest to others? > If yes, I can make the design available. Perhaps the PCB layout and parts > list. I don't think I want to get into building units for others, though. > > paul >
