It’s something of a footnote today but it seems Coleco did get something right as it had a great keyboard. [Nick Bild] has one, and he’s brought it into the 21st century with a USB interface.

A while back, [cnlohr] needed a USB keyboard and mouse. His box ‘o junk didn’t hold this particular treasure, and instead of hopping on Amazon like a normal geek or venturing into the outside ...

Since it implements a standards compliant keyboard, no separate host software is needed. Objective Development's USB driver is a firmware-only implementation of the USB 1.1 standard (low speed device) ...

Additionally, any device that accepts conventional USB keyboards should work with it ... and works in both wired and Bluetooth connection modes (in contrast to pure software solutions such as ...