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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by aswanson on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:29AM (#20399593)
Each button has a unique code. It's packetized as usb or Bluetooth & sent to your pc. That's it.
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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by simonh on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:47AM (#20399682)
Can you describe to me the architecture and components of a typical keyboard USB interface chip, both internal to the chip and external?
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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by aswanson on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:13AM (#20400852)
Sure. Behold the power of hypertext: http://www.sprintek.com/en/products/keyboard_ic/SK5100.aspx
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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by simonh on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:22AM (#20410440)
The whole point of this thread is discussing how engineers used to keep the entire design of the system in their heads, even the CPU. Being able to point to a repository of tech specs really isn't the same thing.
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