Re: IIe case, PC motherboard

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Patrick Schaefer <pa.schaefer@fz-juelich.de> writes:
>Darkstar wrote:
>> Second, has there ever been a circuit designed, even prototyped, to make an
>> adapter for the AY-3600 keyboard decoder to work with a PC keyboard BIOS?  

>This does not make any sense. Of course you can build a parallel to
>serial converter (circuits for the opposite direction can be found in
>literature), but I would take a cheap pc keyboard, break off the part of
>the pcb with the electronics and re-wire the rest using the //e's
>keyswitches. You will need a lot of wire, but after two hours this WILL
>work.

Assuming this means what I think it means - ie allow a PC keyboard to be
plugged into an Apple //, I think I could do it with a single IC (a PIC).

If it means make an Apple // keyboard work on a PC, I agree, it makes no sense.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia  david@uow.edu.au