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BBC Master Compact keyboard pinout

I’m working on a project involving the keyboard from a BBC Master Compact. I couldn’t find an accurate pinout on the web anywhere so I got my multimeter out and mapped it.

 LED Power     01 - 02       Column
 Row           03 - 04       Break
 Row           05 - 06       Row
 Column        07 - 08       Row
 Column        09 - 10       Column
 Column        11 - 12       Column
 Column        13 - 14       Column
 Column        15 - 16       Column
 Column        17 - 18       Column
 Row           19 - 20       SHIFT+CTRL
 Row           21 - 22       Column
 LED Caps      23 - 24       Column
 LED Anode     25 - 26       LED Shift Lock

The LEDs all have suitable resistors on them and can run directly from 5V. Break is pulled up by the same line as the power LED uses for 5V so is effectively on it’s own row. Inside the BBC it is used to trigger a hardware interrupt IIRC.

The SHIFT+CTRL pin (20) is special. These two keys use diodes that allow them to be read by pulling lines 21 (SHIFT) and 24 (CTRL) low in turn.

EDIT: Made some minor corrections

This entry was written by mojo, posted on 16/05/2010 at 23:42, filed under hardware. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
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