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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: hwood34 on Sun, 27 April 2014, 16:28:15
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-COMPUTER-KEYBOARD-IBM-COOL/261462721010?_trksid=p2045573.c100034.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3DPW.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131003150253%26meid%3D6508027413132865055%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D20131003150253%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D8%26sd%3D251429480703
Anyone have any idea what this thing is or what switches those are?
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HE?
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Rub Out
Flush Left
Flush Right
You gotta love it. Probably doubleshots as well.
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^ Looks like Hall effect switches.
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^ Looks like Hall effect switches.
Yeah now that I look that seems right. Almost tempted to get it, but a little pricey I could never use, with no case and in terrible condition, AND missing caps
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this is a re-list. Several was put on eBay a while ago. I bid on one but got outbid. Haata got three I think.
Switches are the less common microswitch "dual magnet" type hall effect. Stem colours on the other keyboards were (probably) uncommon, but the black stems this seems to have are common.. These are somewhat worn, but are very easy to maintain and lube.
Y'all are lucky I've shut down my eBay searches for now or you'd never get one :p
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Looks like a typesetting keyboard. Probably from a newspaper. Seeing the circuit board sawed-off at that angle hurts me.
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Looks like a typesetting keyboard. Probably from a newspaper. Seeing the circuit board sawed-off at that angle hurts me.
boeing makes newspapers?
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Cool find!
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Looks like a typesetting keyboard. Probably from a newspaper. Seeing the circuit board sawed-off at that angle hurts me.
The burn mark under that power transistor is bad, too.
Looks like a typesetting keyboard. Probably from a newspaper. Seeing the circuit board sawed-off at that angle hurts me.
boeing makes newspapers?
Not as far as I know. Why bring Boing into this?
I have at least one other microswitch KB designed for a similar purpose. I agree that it's likely from a newspaper or publisher of some sort.
^ Looks like Hall effect switches.
I could never use
I plan to change that.
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Looks like a typesetting keyboard. Probably from a newspaper. Seeing the circuit board sawed-off at that angle hurts me.
The burn mark under that power transistor is bad, too.
Looks like a typesetting keyboard. Probably from a newspaper. Seeing the circuit board sawed-off at that angle hurts me.
Seeing as it looks like someone took a saw to the corner of that pcb have fun building a new one :p
boeing makes newspapers?
Not as far as I know. Why bring Boing into this?
I have at least one other microswitch KB designed for a similar purpose. I agree that it's likely from a newspaper or publisher of some sort.
^ Looks like Hall effect switches.
I could never use
I plan to change that.
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That stabiliser bar for the shift key is pretty impressive.
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SUPER SHIFT ENGAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It is almost certainly a typesetting keyboard, and while Boeing would likely not have been using it for a newspaper, they would have had plenty of manuals, technical documentation, whitepapers, and the like - all of which would warrant a professional in-house typesetting solution for a company of that scope. The layout reminds me a lot of Compugraphics consoles, with the arrows and other navigation on the left... yet still different than other Compugraphics keyboards that I've seen. Definitely does not resemble other early digital typesetting computers that I'm familiar with - I don't believe it to be a Wang, Toshiba, nor Linotype. And I certainly don't think it's an IBM - far as I know, they didn't have much of a middle era between the Selectrics and their far more modern, compact word processors, instead clinging to their makeshift Selectric-as-interface-to-a-PDP solution.
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