USB Coleco Adam Keyboard
This adapter enables an unmodified Coleco Adam keyboard to work as a USB keyboard on any modern computer.
The Coleco Adam was a short-lived home computer of the early 1980s. It launched with a number of problems, and many units were defective, so it quickly earned a bad reputation and sold poorly before being discontinued after little more than one year on the market. Many attribute the downfall of Coleco to the losses taken on the Adam computer.
But despite these problems, the Adam did have a pretty amazing keyboard for the era. Unlike the many keyboards with membrane keys that were sized for the hands of a toddler, the Adam keyboard is well-built and very nice to type on. Aside from a few odd outliers, the keyboard also has a very modern layout that is immediately familiar to a modern computer user.
I do not have an Adam computer, but I do have an Adam keyboard, and I really want to use it, so I built this USB adapter.
More info: https://github.com/nickbild/coleco_ad...