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Title: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: legalize on Thu, 04 October 2012, 19:01:35
Hi, I am a principal participant in a number of vintage computing projects:

Restoring and repairing terminals means I need to know lots about different keyboards and how they work, how to clean them and restore them, etc.
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: rowdy on Fri, 05 October 2012, 01:26:53
Welcome to Geekhack!

Detailed knowledge of how to clean (and repair?) keyboards will be most welcome around here :)
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: absyrd on Fri, 05 October 2012, 07:07:40
Nice resume! Why not just make your user name "Primary Force"? :P

Welcome to GH. :D
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Fri, 05 October 2012, 08:05:41
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Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: alvinliang on Fri, 05 October 2012, 12:51:46
Welcome to geekhack
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: legalize on Sun, 07 October 2012, 09:39:01
Quote from: absyrd on Fri, 05 October 2012, 07:07:40
Nice resume! Why not just make your user name "Primary Force"? :P

Welcome to GH. :D

I've been using this username in one form or another for about 20 years, so no need to make another one :)
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: mistakemistake on Mon, 08 October 2012, 00:04:54
Welcome to GH!
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: legalize on Fri, 12 October 2012, 10:44:11
I need to get some keyboard boxes to keep warehouse dirt out of the large number of keyboards I have.

I went and measured out dimensions of most of the keyboards I have and quantity I need.

Where's a good place to shop for boxes?
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: MechKey on Sat, 13 October 2012, 10:05:21
I found this from google but don't know if they are the best.

http://www.uline.com/BL_5612/Laptop-Keyboard-Mailers
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: legalize on Sat, 13 October 2012, 12:31:52
Quote from: MechKey on Sat, 13 October 2012, 10:05:21
I found this from google but don't know if they are the best.

http://www.uline.com/BL_5612/Laptop-Keyboard-Mailers

Oooh, good catch.   I was looking at uline already for plastic bags to put around keyboards as another possibility.  Some keyboards, while detached from the terminal, don't have a way of being disconnected from the terminal.  So the best you can do there is put a bag around it to protect it.  Also, you can still see the keyboard through the bag, so it has some "visible storage" display value.

Those mailers won't work for all the keyboards I have, however.  They assume the depth of PC style keyboards which are never more than a couple inches.  I have some keyboards that would require a box height of at least 3-4 inches and a VT220 keyboard is really quite wide -- like 22 inches.  Still, this looks like it would be great for the ones that are more typically PC-ish sized.  Thanks!
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: MechKey on Sat, 13 October 2012, 19:21:04
You're  welcome!
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: vbrenny on Tue, 16 October 2012, 21:20:32
Quote from: legalize on Thu, 04 October 2012, 19:01:35
  • I scan lots of content for BitSavers (http://bitsavers.org), and publish an RSS feed for new PDF (http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/bitsavers-pdf.xml) and bits (http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/bitsavers-bits.xml) content.

You, sir, is my HotD - Hero of the Day!
For a retrocomputing enthusiast like me, and also hardware tinker, this is like a goldmine.
Great project! Awesome content!

So, be welcome to GH.
Title: Re: terminals wiki, computer graphics museum, manx, bitsavers...
Post by: legalize on Tue, 16 October 2012, 22:19:25
Quote from: vbrenny on Tue, 16 October 2012, 21:20:32
    Quote from: legalize on Thu, 04 October 2012, 19:01:35
    • I scan lots of content for BitSavers (http://bitsavers.org), and publish an RSS feed for new PDF (http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/bitsavers-pdf.xml) and bits (http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/bitsavers-bits.xml) content.

    You, sir, is my HotD - Hero of the Day!
    For a retrocomputing enthusiast like me, and also hardware tinker, this is like a goldmine.
    Great project! Awesome content!

    So, be welcome to GH.

    Al Kossow, the software librarian for the Computer History Museum, is the brainchild behind bitsavers and it is a truly awesome resource.  I help out where I can so that Al doesn't have to do everything :)[/list]