Great tear down and write-up
Great and educational photos and write up.
Thanks all!
Do you have a picture of the whole keyboard and not a closeup shot? I'm curious to see what the whole unit looks like.
Should be in the flickr album. If not, I'll take another one.
I tried to keep this post to new information that you can't look up elsewhere. There are pictures of DWs elsewhere online (taken by better photographers than me), so I kept them out of the post.
My 5251 was also made in Canada too.
Most beamsprings were, if I recall correctly.
How does it feel?
Close to a selectric, actually. The switches are a little loose and wobbly (due to the old mat inside. I will possibly replace it with something better sometime. Otherwise it's light and clicky, like a lighter model F I Guess.
Proud to be Canadian right now seeing this was made in Canada!
Nice find :thumb:
When I visited in 2010, Canada was Awesome!
Do you have a picture of the whole keyboard and not a closeup shot? I'm curious to see what the whole unit looks like.
Would imagine it looks a lot like this :
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(http://www.welook4things.com/displaywriter_images/dw_1850.jpg)
Yep that's it. There's also a version with a 'bigass' enter and a nonsplit leftshift for 2 fewer keys, but it's less common from what I was able to determine.
Great detail shots :D, it'll be cool to see when you bring it in your trip.
Hopefully the keycaps will be clean by then.Most of the beam spring keyboards were made in Canada. I'm typing this on a Canadian made 3278. It's great that some of the best keyboards ever made were made in Canada. (...by an American company... but that's another story ;))
My selectric says it was made in NY, and it's still my favourite keyboard, though the beam spring is pretty close. :)