Bob Ammerman wrote:
> I have  been attempting to restore the first computer I ever owned, an S1=
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> bus based NorthStar Horizon I built from a kit in the late 1970's. It has=
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> been a challenge, largely due to old tantalum caps shorting and sometimes=
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> catching fire and a nearly complete lack of documentation for the various=
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> hacks I performed on it.
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> At this point I have the CPU card, serial ports, video card, a couple of=
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> memory cards and an eprom card (including 2708 (!) EPROM burner) running.=
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> Unfortunately it appears that my very nice parallel keyboard is dead. For=
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> now, I am running PROCOMM on an old DOS PC to emulate a dumb terminal=20
> connected to the old machine instead of the video display and keyboard.
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> I am looking for a converter to convert from a PS2 keyboard to a parallel=
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> ascii output with strobe. Although I am sure I could cobble something up,=
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> am sure that I have seen a PIC-based implementation of this sort of thing=
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> somewhere.
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> Any pointers?
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A quick google found=20
http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/IBM%20Keyboard/IBM%20Keyboard.=
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but he took a rather retro approach to the problem using a Z80 with=20
seperate ram/rom/etc to do the conversion. He does sell the baord though.






> Thanks,
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> -- Bob Ammerman
> RAm Systems
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