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It is rather better than my homemade one from 1982
https://twitter.com/njcw/status/1368566103933337603
My dad gave me a old keyboard from something and I traced the zx81 PCB to discover how it was wired, then rewired the new keyboard the same.
I connected it by burning a hole in the case with my soldering iron to poke the wires through!
It was a dream compared to the membrane keyboard.
This is definitely tidier than the mechanical keyboard I had for my ZX81—build by a friend in the early '80s and purchased by me circa 1994!—which had keycaps which were more or less photocopies of the picture of the keyboard in the manual that had been photocopied and glued onto the keys of some ancient surplus terminal keyboard, with a healthy dose varnish to protect the paper on top and a lot of kludging of the PC…
That is a sweet keyboard. It is rather better than my homemade one from 1982 https://twitter.com/njcw/status/1368566103933337603 My dad gave me a old keyboard from something and I traced the zx81 PCB to discover how it was wired, then rewired the new keyboard the same. I connected it by burning a hole in the case with my soldering iron to poke the wires through! It was a dream compared to the membrane keyboard.
Brian's entire ZX81 reproduction project is wonderful: https://chaos.social/@swetland/tagged/zx81
https://github.com/mahjongg2/ZX81plus38
That is a sweet keyboard. It is rather better than my homemade one from 1982 https://twitter.com/njcw/status/1368566103933337603 My dad gave me a old keyboard from something and I traced the zx81 PCB to discover how it was wired, then rewired the new keyboard the same. I connected it by burning a hole in the case with my soldering iron to poke the wires through! It was a dream compared to the membrane keyboard.
What's the keyboard from?
When he was through examining them I got to play!
David’s whole website is a ZX81 adventure! https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/p/zx-key-support.html https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/
Memotech Keyboard: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/36275/Memotech-ZX81-...
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What's the keyboard from?
I don't remember I'm afraid. My dad ran a business making keyboards at the time and he was always bringing home keyboards he'd bought to examine. When he was through examining them I got to play!