Help identifying a keyboard?

Philip Pemberton classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
Mon Sep 17 00:32:35 CDT 2007


woodelf wrote:
> But I don't have the keyboard or even a Datasheet on a keyboard
> encoder chip. Offhand I guess that is TTL serial at some fixed
> buad rate.

Ah. Well, in that case, I'd trace the matrix out and build up a circuit for 
it, then figure out where on the 40-pin socket it leads and build up an 
adapter to fit a microcontroller (probably an 8051 - that's probably what the 
board was designed for, or its close relative the 8048) in there. After that 
I'd cook up some keyboard scanning code and have a play.

It's a fair bit of work though...

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