On 9/13/16 9:25 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> If you are not opposed to making a custom PCB to stuff with Cherry MX > keyswitches, then you have a lot of freedom. True enough. I have even bought some switches and non so great Cherry keyboards to harvest keytops. About 10 WY-30 keyboards in so-so condition showed up for about $7 ea, so i'll probably just go with that, since they seem to be the least desirable (next to WY-50) for the mechanical collectors. Televideo was pretty consistent with their serial keyboard protocol and voltages, Qume.. not at all. I've identified at least 4 different styles of 4-pin connector keyboards using either 12 or 5 volt power. Then, there is ADDS, Hazeltine, Microterm, DG, Freedom, ...