06-04-2022, 11:37 AM
Great to see that the keyboard is all working now. It makes a huge difference to have a reliable keyboard on the bee.
Thanks for your comments about the keyboard replacement kit design. I wanted to make it as easy as possible to make and install.
The 20 way connector on the baseboard certainly helped in that. The non-premium machines have a number of flying wires that need
to be attached to the baseboard instead.
That connector was designed for adding another keyboard (forward planning) if an external keyboard was required, or a different keyboard was designed to fit
the premium baseboard in the 256TC case etc.
BTW, that 'strange' screen you found in monitor is actually the terminal command that provides a 300 baud serial terminal.
'T' <Enter> enters 300 baud full duplex (keys typed go out the serial port but not echoed to screen)
'TH' <Enter> enters 300 baud HALF duplex (keys typed go out the serial port and also appear on screen)
if you want 1200 baud instead, use 'U'<Enter> and 'UH'<Enter> respectively.
Terminal mode uses 80 x 24 character screen format.
Thanks for your comments about the keyboard replacement kit design. I wanted to make it as easy as possible to make and install.
The 20 way connector on the baseboard certainly helped in that. The non-premium machines have a number of flying wires that need
to be attached to the baseboard instead.
That connector was designed for adding another keyboard (forward planning) if an external keyboard was required, or a different keyboard was designed to fit
the premium baseboard in the 256TC case etc.
BTW, that 'strange' screen you found in monitor is actually the terminal command that provides a 300 baud serial terminal.
'T' <Enter> enters 300 baud full duplex (keys typed go out the serial port but not echoed to screen)
'TH' <Enter> enters 300 baud HALF duplex (keys typed go out the serial port and also appear on screen)
if you want 1200 baud instead, use 'U'<Enter> and 'UH'<Enter> respectively.
Terminal mode uses 80 x 24 character screen format.