First post, by Sphere478
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I have recently discovered the need for a more comprehensive mouse/keyboard adapter for my projects as I venture farther into older hardware in my builds. With my latest 386 build I can no longer work without some kind of comprehensive adapter to serial.
I have an idea,
We have a few nice mouse/keyboard adapters floating around very nice ones in fact. Which of course would work.
I have an idea for a new one though.
My thought is this:
-8-bit isa card forum factor.
-Use isa for any needed power
-Work with XT, AT motherboards via a external jumper cable. With optional internal header. (If possible)
-Connect mouse via internal ps/2 or serial ribbon
-Convert protocols using pi-pico
-Support native ps/2 and native usb mice and keyboards.
For this project I was thinking rather than making it my own project, that we could do a community effort. There are some really smart people here who have already made parts of this project. Rio444, calamitylime, rasteri, and others. Very nice work all! 😀 I was thinking I could handle some or all of the pcb drafting and the others could fill in the gaps with their experience.
This would be a fully open project. Totally public domain. I don’t plan on selling these, but others would be permitted to do so with the design if they so wished.
What do you all say?
Suggestions? Ideas? Thoughts?