![]() Did they really run 16+ wires directly from the CIAs to the keys? Or did they use a serial connection like IBM PCs had already been using? It was many years later that I actually learned enough about the 128D to know that it used a DB-25 connector, as used by the early RS-232 devices and the PC parallel port. When I first heard of the 128D, having already played with keyboard scanning, I instantly wondered how the keyboard was interfaced. I also recall those summer days working with my C64, the sweat nearly dripping from my hands because of the heat from the motherboard escaping upward. I have pictured myself using the C64 in lap-top fashion, but I think that the things I'd like to keep plugged in to it would make that less than comfortable. (Well, we'll just overlook those little toys they call nettops, or laptbooks, or whatever.) All for the better if you ask me, since I find the most ergonomic place for a keyboard is on my lap, as low as possible. ![]() These days, keyboards that are separate from the computer, connected via a wire, are the norm. The two external keyboards of the 128D and the SX-64 provide one of these possibilities. I seem to always be coming up with passible ways do do strange things with my 64. I'm a bit like that kid on Toy Story, the one that liked to push the limits, so to speak, on the interchangeability of various toy parts. What exactly is the keyboard interface for Commodore's detached keyboards? Did they essentially take the keyboard out, give it its own case, and lengthen the cable? Or is there something more devious going on? 6 External Keyboards (for SX-64 and 128D) ![]()
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