Mark Wickens <m...@wickensonline.co.uk> writes: > does anyone know of a documented project that replaced the internals > of a BBC Model B with a Raspberry Pi (or MiniITX PC) interfacing with > keyboard etc. to bring modern internals with a traditional interface?
This one's been around for a while: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/bbcitxb/ Tynemouth Software do USB keyboard controllers for the keyboards of various 80s micros, including the BBC: http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2014/09/bbc-micro-usb-keyboard.html https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TynemouthSoftware I wouldn't want to dismantle a working machine to do this, but it was common enough back in the day -- I converted a dead Dragon 32 into a Z80 machine in the early 90s, and I was given a terminal keyboard fitted with a ZX Spectrum motherboard at one point. It certainly seems a better use for (say) an Electron with a dead ULA than just sitting around gathering dust, and it's easy enough to do it reversibly these days. I've occasionally wondered about building an ARM workstation inside an IBM Model M keyboard... Cheers, -- Adam Sampson <a...@offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
