Re: Yet another Apple II keyboard interface (PS/2 and RS232 support)

[mike@willegal.net]

Hi Steve,

All my projects are motivated by fun factor first, potential market, a
very distant second. I'll worry about the marketplace in my "real
world" job, which pays the bills (and funds these projects).  An
example of this mindset is my firmware board.  Only one exists in
captivity.   I had a lot of fun building that thing.  I find the
firmware board very useful for purposes of Apple II motherboard
debugging, but I've got no interest from the Apple community to make
more. I don't regret building it at all, and actually have plans to
make some small enhancements to my prototype.

The prototype keyboard interface was built primarily because I needed
another keyboard for Apple II motherboard debugging and it looked like
a fairly small and interesting project.  Neither Vince's or Bill's
solution worked for me, since I don't have spare Apple II+ or IIe
keyboards laying around.

Still not sure where I'm going with this, but the input about IIe
version in interesting.  Quite frankly, not being a IIe type person,
I'm wondering what is driving this need.  Are the apple IIe keyboards
unreliable and hard to repair or do they have bad ergonomics?

Regards,
Mike Willegal

On Jul 24, 8:11 am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> m...@willegal.net wrote:
> > Hi Steven,
>
> > A IIe adaptor requires a small bit of additional hardware(added cost),
> > which my current (preliminary) design doesn't have.  The form and
> > function of the final design depends upon the level of interest as
> > well as the expectations of the Apple II community.
>
> There are already (2) such adapters offered that support only ][ and ][+
> (Garber and Vince Briel). Why dive into an occupied niche in a market that's
> tiny to begin with?
>
> I have no interest in a ][,][+ only adapter.  I would buy a //e adapter
> sight-unseen (perhaps 2).
>
> Steve