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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: ander on Thu, 23 February 2023, 02:24:47

Title: Massive oddball terminal board (HE?), UK
Post by: ander on Thu, 23 February 2023, 02:24:47

I don't know if this is a "great find" or not, but it'd not something you see every day:

VINTAGE Unbranded Serial Computer / Terminal Keyboard (https://www.ebay.com/itm/225420555513)

~$42 US + shipping from UK


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/hNEAAOSwAEJjnKWk/s-l1600.png)

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ywIAAOSwoLRjnKWL/s-l1600.jpg)

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zAsAAOSwS0RjnKWN/s-l1600.jpg)

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LMsAAOSwjX5jnKWM/s-l1600.jpg)

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/43kAAOSwpNNjnKXB/s-l1600.png)

What are those—Hall Effect switches? Maybe, judging from the height of the case... And dig the little grain-of-wheat bulbs, like they used to use in model train layouts. They couldn't make standard incandescent bulbs that small.

Title: Re: Massive oddball terminal board (HE?), UK
Post by: JP on Thu, 23 February 2023, 18:13:33

Interesting old board no doubt. Perhaps for some sort of typesetting system or word processing system. No clue on what exactly these switches are yet.