USB for a 1977 Keyboard
- Track: Retrocomputing devroom
- Room: D.retro
- Day: Sunday
- Start: 13:00
- End: 13:30
- Video with Q&A: D.retro
- Video only: D.retro
- Chat: Join the conversation!
The talk will be about how I bought a retro keyboard for a VISTA80 from the Canada Science and Technology museum and reversed engineered it to convert it passively to USB. The VISTA80 was a machine built in Canada and was used to "Create pages of text for cable TV systems or to create running lines of text or titles for television displays."¹ The VISTA80 was manufactured around 1995-1997 and was "One of the first character generators to use a computer chip (Intel 8080A) as a controller"¹.
1: https://ingeniumcanada.org/ingenium/collection-research/collection-item.php?id=1992.0451.009
- The history of the Vista80
- A look inside of the keyboard
- The Original circuitry
- Prototype
- Mapping the matrix
- Making the circuit board
- Highlights and Lessons learned
I would potentially like to collaborate with the museum to get more information on the device.
Speakers
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Jeremy Ouellet (Angel) |