Ever since I got the pile of compacts without keyboards or mice, I've been on the lookout for keyboards. Most of the keyboards I see available are going for about as much as the whole machine, so I haven't picked any up.
Finally, I gave up and decided to make an adapter that allows using a PS2 keyboard on the older compacts.
No fancy fine pitch soldering, just connecting up header pins and some wires. I think it's less than $20 in parts all told.
Here are a couple videos of it in action, but my phone seems to do a pretty poor job of it:
Amber screen Plus
Normal Plus
I've written it up in more detail here along with parts list, links, instructions, and code to the controller.
Right now it has all the keys of the original keyboard mapped, but none of the number pad.
Finally, I gave up and decided to make an adapter that allows using a PS2 keyboard on the older compacts.
No fancy fine pitch soldering, just connecting up header pins and some wires. I think it's less than $20 in parts all told.
Here are a couple videos of it in action, but my phone seems to do a pretty poor job of it:
Amber screen Plus
Normal Plus
I've written it up in more detail here along with parts list, links, instructions, and code to the controller.
Right now it has all the keys of the original keyboard mapped, but none of the number pad.