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Odds are it would be extremely easy with, say, an Arduino Pro Micro. I've interfaced a variety of old hardware (Sun Type 5 keyboard, Depraz mouse, original Maci
by floren 4y ago
Odds are it would be extremely easy with, say, an Arduino Pro Micro. I've interfaced a variety of old hardware (Sun Type 5 keyboard, Depraz mouse, original Macintosh mouse) via USB using one.
You're probably more or less on your own in terms of figuring it out, though, because not many people have those keyboards!
- jcynix 4y ago> You're probably more or less on your own in terms of figuring it out [...] Sure, but as I'm not a good hardware tinkerer, ... but maybe I should visit some local self-repair community group and learn. Symbolics produced a nubus(?) coprocessor with their Ivory chip in their final days, which used a box to interface the keyboard to Apple's ADB, but I never got hold of either the coprocesor nor the box.
- floren 4y agoYou might start with https://trmm.net/Symbolics/ https://trmm.net/Symbolics/ which seems to be pretty much ready-to-go with an Arduino. If you're in the Bay Area, I would build the adapter for you just to have the opportunity to check out a Symbolics keyboard first-hand :)