Re: Apple2 keyboard connector pinout

[Artur Jasowicz <arturj@interaccess.com>]

"James P. Meyer" <jimbob@acpub.duke.edu> wrote:
>On 26 Oct 1996, Artur Jasowicz wrote:
>

> Note that there are only seven data bits.  No hi-ascii!
You are absolutely right. I was using old notes and it was late at 
night when I posted this. That's why I didn't catch this error.

>	I had a Commodore VIC-20 when I built an Apple ][ clone from a 
>bare board.  I spent all my money on the motherboard and one disk drive 
>and didn't have anything left over for a real keyboard.  So I programmed 
>the VIC-20's user port to send ASCII to the Apple.  It worked really 
>well.  The VIC-20 could even be programmed to send whole strings to the 
>Apple with a single keystroke.  I had a "smart" keyboard!
Hehe, I did a very simillar thing using my PC in the first version of my
program transferring files between Apple and PC through joystick port.
My keyboard could even retype last line with a single keystroke :)


I wonder if you (or anyone) know how keyboard knows when to send next 
keystroke. For my clone I used to have a keyboard with its own CPU (6800)
and it seemed to know when Apple was busy, say, reading a floppy. It would
then store keystrokes in buffer and send them later. Is this possible or
was it too long ago and I just don't remember?

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