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Fixed PS/2 Backspace Key

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land-boardscomland-boards.com 07/03/2021 at 14:090 Comments

The backspace key that the PDP-8 expects isn't the CTRL-H key (0x08 ASCII value) . The key needs to be mapped to ASCII 0x7F. Fortunately, the PS/2 keyboard VHDL code (ps2_keyboard_to_ascii.vhd) makes this easy to change. 

It works!

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