kbdbabel
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Hi all,
about three years ago I have started a project "kbdbabel", keyboard protocol translators, www.kbdbabel.org.
First there were just two hand-knit adapters: IBM-PC/XT and Sun4/5/6 to PS2.
But in the meantime, the project grew, today there is a collected documentation
for more then 50 distinct keyboard interfaces available www.kbdbabel.org/conn,
some signaling diagrams www.kbdbabel.org/signaling,
schematics www.kbdbabel.org/schematic,
rom images www.kbdbabel.org/rom
and more then 20 different microcontroller based keyboard protocol translators available, as open source
http://kbdbabel.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kbdbabel/.
Most of those keyboards are dated between the mid 70s and mid 90s,
a time where lot of manufacturers started to build detachable keyboards,
everyone with one or more different interfaces.
This was the time between build-in-keyboards and standard keyboard interfaces like PS2 and USB.
In a few words,
I am collecting keyboard-interfaces.
Alexander
about three years ago I have started a project "kbdbabel", keyboard protocol translators, www.kbdbabel.org.
First there were just two hand-knit adapters: IBM-PC/XT and Sun4/5/6 to PS2.
But in the meantime, the project grew, today there is a collected documentation
for more then 50 distinct keyboard interfaces available www.kbdbabel.org/conn,
some signaling diagrams www.kbdbabel.org/signaling,
schematics www.kbdbabel.org/schematic,
rom images www.kbdbabel.org/rom
and more then 20 different microcontroller based keyboard protocol translators available, as open source
http://kbdbabel.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kbdbabel/.
Most of those keyboards are dated between the mid 70s and mid 90s,
a time where lot of manufacturers started to build detachable keyboards,
everyone with one or more different interfaces.
This was the time between build-in-keyboards and standard keyboard interfaces like PS2 and USB.
In a few words,
I am collecting keyboard-interfaces.
Alexander