Anyone have a MacCharlie keyboard unit?

[Tashtari]

This is probably a long shot considering how rare MacCharlies are, but... I find myself curious about the keyboard unit that came with them. If it plugged into the Mac's keyboard port (the one with the 4P4C phone handset-type jack), it's one of a very small number of devices that did, and maybe the only third-party one? It'd be great to document for posterity and cloning purposes what its model number response and key codes are. Anyone out there happen to have one?

 

[eric]

DosFox was just showing off his MacCharlie on Discord - pinged him a link to this thread.

Edit: he does not.

 

[Trash80toG4]

I find myself curious about the keyboard unit that came with them. If it plugged into the Mac's keyboard port (the one with the 4P4C phone handset-type jack), it's one of a very small number of devices that did, and maybe the only third-party one?

Not the only one, but could be one of only two? I've got both the platinum ADB and beigy phone plug versions of the datadesk MAC-101.

Really curious to see an in depth look at the MacCharlie board. It was a surround for Apple's KBD.

Dayna MacCharlie Chapter 3

Dayna MacCharlie page

Steve Jobs' accursed mouse use enforcement KBD abomination . . . no cursor keys! At least the MacCharlie provided NumLocked PageNav capability.

 

[Tashtari]

Cool, looks like it did plug into the keyboard port... most likely the keypad functioned like the separate M0120 keypad for the 512k/128k since it has that keypad's symbols printed on it in red, but the function keys are a mystery.

 

[Trash80toG4]

Way more function than the Apple Keypad I think.

Phil Beasley's pic on the linked website above shows the connection from Apple KBD to MacCharlie surround.

http://archive.retro.co.za/mirrors/68000/www.vintagemacworld.com/charlie/keyboard.jpg

Is the "rewired phone cord" Mac KBD a serial ASCII interface. That would explain the additional functionality?