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Offline Philister

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Holy smoke! If this isn't the Mother of all keyboards...
« on: Sat, 22 April 2017, 15:59:45 »
Mother

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Re: Holy smoke! If this isn't the Mother of all keyboards...
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 22 April 2017, 17:27:40 »
Wow, fockstha? Oo
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Re: Holy smoke! If this isn't the Mother of all keyboards...
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 22 April 2017, 22:21:15 »
I'd bet on early homebrew for a really early do-it-yourself kind of computer enthusiast.

The original Apple computer didn't come standard with a case or keyboard. And things like the Altair 8800 were so bare bones you'd have to make the interface to connect it and the program to use it with.

Certainly a cool beast.

[Edit:] I saw K155 on the chip  (the last two characters appear to be A3, but I can't quite tell. The character before the 3 might be Cyrillic).
Looks to be a Russian equivalent to a 74 series logic chip.
http://vicgain.sdot.ru/spmikro/smikr1.eng.htm
https://ganswijk.home.xs4all.nl/chipdir/soviet/ttl.htm

[Edit 2:] There appears to be some markings on the PCB. It appears to be duplicated and stamped. Although IDing it likely won't help very much especially if it's homebrew/low production custom. That said it seems to be "K85" or "K35" with a logo above it separated by a line.
« Last Edit: Sat, 22 April 2017, 22:40:21 by Aer Fixus »
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Re: Holy smoke! If this isn't the Mother of all keyboards...
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 26 April 2017, 17:52:43 »
Mother

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Looks like something fallen off a church organ - the type you'd play with your feet


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Re: Holy smoke! If this isn't the Mother of all keyboards...
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 26 April 2017, 20:30:58 »
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LOL! If Bach had owned a computer keyboard, that's what it would've looked like.

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Re: Holy smoke! If this isn't the Mother of all keyboards...
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 27 April 2017, 20:38:33 »
You can't find wooden doubleshots like that anywhere. Amazing.
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Re: Holy smoke! If this isn't the Mother of all keyboards...
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 02 May 2017, 02:14:02 »
You can't find wooden doubleshots like that anywhere. Amazing.

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