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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.

• 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)

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

• 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.