Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

2019-05-23 Thread Pete Rittwage via cctalk
On 2019-05-22 11:56, John Many Jars via cctech wrote: I feel like I'm falling down a rabbit hole with this old ][ europlus I've had for years. The smoke came out of the power supply, so I replaced it with one from ReactiveMicro. Now it boots, and was working okay, until this morning. Now, no k

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

2019-05-23 Thread John Many Jars via cctalk
Weird... now I've pulled it apart (taken the case off and pulled out the keyboard... and I get many wrong characters instead of no characters... Hmmm. I wonder what happens if you take all the screws out of this thing? I hope it's not like an IBM AT keyboard and 83 tiny springs fly out... On Thu

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

2019-05-23 Thread John Many Jars via cctalk
That would be great. I'd really appreciate it. On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 14:08, Adrian Graham via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I have a contact in Belgium who has made some PS2 adapter PCBs if you'd > like me to put you in contact, he was advertising them on Facebook a week

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

2019-05-23 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
Hi Mark, I have a contact in Belgium who has made some PS2 adapter PCBs if you'd like me to put you in contact, he was advertising them on Facebook a week or so ago. -- adrian/witchy Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection? t: @binarydinosaursf: facebook.

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

2019-05-23 Thread Alexandre Souza via cctalk
- There are lots of PS2 adapters on the market, I made one myself - There are lots of PS2 to apple II schematics avaiable. One of them uses just ONE PIC µC - The keyboard encoder was reverse-engineered by Victor Trucco, and I believe I've seen others around Lots of options :) ---8<---Corte aqui--

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

2019-05-23 Thread John Many Jars via cctalk
Hi Brian, That's an interesting thread. It probably is the encoder chip as hitting Ctrl-Reset works. Unfortunately Briel Computers doesn't seem to exist anymore. ): This seems like a temporary solution. I need to collect the stuff to build one: https://knzl.at/ps2-keyboard-for-apple-ii/ Than

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

2019-05-22 Thread Brian Marstella via cctalk
Just ran across this a few days ago on different search... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.apple2/kJ4SosdZTb4 May have some helpful info. On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:56 AM John Many Jars via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I feel like I'm falling down a rabbit hole with

Apple ][+ Keyboard

2019-05-22 Thread John Many Jars via cctalk
I feel like I'm falling down a rabbit hole with this old ][ europlus I've had for years. The smoke came out of the power supply, so I replaced it with one from ReactiveMicro. Now it boots, and was working okay, until this morning. Now, no keyboard if you hit ctrl-reset. All other keys are ignor