[GreenKeys] Smith Corona pc keyboard

[cswiger]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Henry Minsky wrote:

>
> OK, that looks like a rather unreliable way to interface to a typewriter.
> The soldering
> looks shaky, and I am not sure that the switch contacts he
>

It does look like a high 'fiddle factor' device (He admits it failed
Christmas morning too).  I did a project once to convert a generic
PC kbrd scan codes to parallel ASCII using a microcontroller (Phillips
87C750) - it wouldn't be TOO awefully difficult to convert an ITA2 loop
to PC scan codes, plug your model 28 right into the keyboard port. I'm
sure Gil could do it if he wasn't busy making a PDP-8 ;))

	Chuck
	kb4new
	cswiger@widomaker.com