NF6X
Veteran Member
I have not yet perused the links that NeXT very helpfully provided above, since I don't have a Lisa in my collection at this time. But if the keyboard communication protocol happens to be documented sufficiently in the technical documents, or if somebody with a working keyboard is able to reverse-engineer the protocol, then maybe it wouldn't be too hard to make a protocol translator to allow some other keyboard to be used. Finding a matching Lisa keyboard would be best, but it's not the end of the road if one can't be found. I considered doing something very similar for my TRS-80 Model 12 before I found a matching keyboard for it.
My dad's Lisa (running the Mac software rather than the Lisa software) was the second computer I ever used, after my TRS-80 Color Computer. I wouldn't mind acquiring a nice Lisa one of these days. I didn't like the original Macs at the time because their screens were just a bit too small for my preference, but the larger Lisa screen didn't have that limitation. I really liked how modular the hardware was on the Lisa. It was always a fun machine to pull to pieces and then put back together again.
My dad's Lisa (running the Mac software rather than the Lisa software) was the second computer I ever used, after my TRS-80 Color Computer. I wouldn't mind acquiring a nice Lisa one of these days. I didn't like the original Macs at the time because their screens were just a bit too small for my preference, but the larger Lisa screen didn't have that limitation. I really liked how modular the hardware was on the Lisa. It was always a fun machine to pull to pieces and then put back together again.