dekuNukem
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Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
An active converter is needed to use modern USB on retro computers. I made one a few years ago for many different computers.
https://github.com/dekuNukem/USB4VC
There's also a more recent project called HIDman, but only for PCs.
Comment · 2 years ago
However if you want to go the other way and use USB keyboards on ADB mac (and many others), check out my USB4VC project: https://github.com/dekuNukem/USB4VC
Comment · 4 years ago
-5V has became optional in recent ATX specifications, and many newer PSUs don’t have it at all. (including the one I used here)
-12V is still mandated and on all ATX PSUs, so it’s more compatible to get -5V out of that.
Sirius 1 had the weird floppy drive and unusal high-res graphics. Apricot had Display-in-keyboard and compact form factors. Olivetti had charming italian design and the strange upside-down motherboard (when battery leaks it drips down instead of eating the PCB, talk about ahead of its time!)
All ran MS-DOS but not "PC compatible", so none of them really took off. Then everyone started to do 100% compatible clones, and it was a race to the bottom.