Sources for 8b TTL keyboards (Keytronics)

[Jim Brain]

Zane H. Healy wrote:
>> I'm curious as to why one would do that?  Is it really quicker to 
>> design, implement, test, maintain, support something on your own rather 
>> than use a pretested application/utility?
>>
>> Jim
>>     
>
> Sometimes there are real advantages to rolling your own.  You know what it
> does, you have full control over the data, and if you're a good enough
> programmer, it does exactly what you want.  Other times the reasons boil
> down to $$$'s.
>   
I can see the academic nature of rolling your own, and I can see the 
money aspect.

However, if the existing solution is open source, I think the latter 
reason disappears.  I suppose the former is still valid, though

Jim