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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Magna224 on Sun, 08 April 2012, 19:50:04

Title: Ultratec Minicom IV
Post by: Magna224 on Sun, 08 April 2012, 19:50:04

Look what I found. Its a kind of text messaging system that you hook your phone up to. It was apparently designed for deaf people.

(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0023-1.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0024-1.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0027-2.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0050.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0049.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0029-2.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0034-1.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0037-1.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0040.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0041.jpg)
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww18/y3ma/DSC_0048.jpg)

Title: Ultratec Minicom IV
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 09 April 2012, 09:32:04

Sweet. I thought it was Cherry but could never get the seller to confirm it. Just pulled the trigger on one too, I really dig the number row.

Title: Ultratec Minicom IV
Post by: sth on Mon, 09 April 2012, 09:43:34

Nice... now get it working with your PC :)

Title: Ultratec Minicom IV
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 09 April 2012, 09:49:19

LOL... don't know about OP, but will only be cannibalized by me. $25 is not too bad for some interesting doubleshots though. Would be nice if can used the vfd somehow, vintage blacks are good.

Title: Ultratec Minicom IV
Post by: sth on Mon, 09 April 2012, 10:07:47

Not having matching mods + punctuation would drive me nuts. What are the key profiles like?

Title: Ultratec Minicom IV
Post by: audioave10 on Mon, 09 April 2012, 10:09:01

Cool...at that price, it should be built like a tank.

Title: Ultratec Minicom IV
Post by: Magna224 on Mon, 09 April 2012, 14:35:45

I almost picked up some very odd industrial keyboard thing too. It was a big steel case and had low profile keycaps and a throttle looking thing. It had weird rectangle switches where the spring was horizontal to the pcb and I could see two(maybe one) gold colored stabilizers(?) but it was $12 and I had already blown a lot of money over the weekend. The keycap stem connections popped into holes on the switch housing like space invaders(it was a similar 3 hole stem setup too). When I pressed the keycap the lower half would go down and the upper half would go up slightly like a teeter-totter.

Title: Ultratec Minicom IV
Post by: PRISONER 24601 on Tue, 10 April 2012, 03:52:11

I have an old TTY machine with cherry blacks too. It's AT&T branded and looks almost identical to yours/