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XT To AT Keyboard Adapter

June 10, 2007 by Will O'Brien 16 Comments


If you dig the older switch based keyboards, you’ll like this. As a favor to a friend, [Bob van Loosen] built a small converter using a pic16F84 to make an XT telex keyboard usable with modern AT style computers.

Posted in computer hacks, Peripherals HacksTagged old school hardware, OldSchoolHardware, telex, xt keyboard, xt keyboard converter, XtKeyboard, XtKeyboardConverter

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