HOW TO – Build an ASCII keyboard and encoder

Computers & Mobile Technology

Phillip Torrone

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Finally, at last! You can build a low-cost, fully professional ASCII keyboard and encoder “Popular Electronics April 1974” – Link – but wait, there’s more, this keyboard showed up on the Apple 1 Computer – Link.

3 thoughts on “HOW TO – Build an ASCII keyboard and encoder”

archoo says:

August 18th, 2006 at 5:27 am

I can’t help but notice that this keyboard doesn’t have a caps lock key…
Asbesto Molesto says:

August 30th, 2015 at 12:54 pm

Ehm… ok… but… HOW? Where’s the howto?

Daniel Cogburn says:

November 23rd, 2016 at 10:59 am

click the link between “1974” and “but”. The page has a series of images. those are the howto.