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- Update all footprints on sol-20 keyboard and aligners

- Add soldermask clearance around cherry MX posts

- Move Cherry MX pads down 1 mil, and Futaba pads up 2 mils

- Adjust Cherry aligner footprints down 1 mil

- Adjust Futaba aligner footprints up 2 mils

- Move mounting slots up 1 mil on Cherry aligner

- Move mounting slots down 1 mil on Futaba aligner

- incorporate improved stabilizer post adapters in futaba aligner

- add slots for stabilizer posts in futaba aligner and Sol kebyoard PCB

- Move stabilizer bar bend guide to left bottom edge to facilitate bending

- Bump rev to 1.6
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README.md

Unified Retrocomputer Keyboard Project

This project aims to provide a unified collection of keyboards and encoders for vintage computers, with modular design to reuse as many elements as possible across the designs.

Home computers of the 1970's typically either polled a switch matrix, or interfaced to a parallel ASCII keyboard via a parallel port.

The keyboard allows use of Cherry MX keys, or Futaba MD-4PCS (aka George Risk KBM-01-01) keys.

The keyboard is designed using KiCad in order to be the most useful for anybody wishing to modify the keyboard for more specific uses, or to add to the project.

Capabilities so far:

  • Replacement keyboard for OSI computers
  • Replacement keyboard for Apple II/II+ computers
  • Replacement keyboard for the Sol-20 computer
  • Generic ADM-3A/Teletype style keyboard
  • Apple I keyboard (multiple styles)

Coming soon:

  • Replace encoder board on Apple II/II+ keyboards
  • Convert an OSI 542 keyboard into a generic ASCII keyboard

This keyboard project so far consists of:

  • A classic retro-style ASCII keyboard, modeled after the ADM-3A keyboard, which can be also be populated to fit perfectly in an Apple II/II+ case (with corresponding Apple II keymaps), or an OSI case (with OSI adapter).
  • A Sol-20 compatible keyboard.
  • Keyscan/decoder interface modules that can output parallel ASCII, and can be adapted for other protocols.
  • An OSI interface module, to connect the classic keyboard to an OSI computer.