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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Blaise170 on Sat, 09 May 2015, 17:03:52
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Found this interesting piece on eBay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/vintage-soviet-IBM-keyboard-MS7007-NOS-NIB-sealed-mc-7007-new-/231554837858?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35e9be6d62
Was just wondering if anyone knew anything about it. The computer it came from has a wikipedia page but nothing is mentioned about the keyboard other than having 88 keys.
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Sure looks like a rubber dome and I don't think it's IBM at all. Just a word to put into the title so it pops up in your search. I don't know for certain though.
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Manufacturer UKNC. That's all I got, I'm afraid.
EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKNC
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I bought it. It doesn't have the PS/2 connector I was hoping to find on it :-) Coming out the back are two nine-line plastic ribbon cables, labelled XT1 and XT2. Before I start pushing electrons through it with the Arduino in the hopes that I can make sense of it, can anyone give me a lead? Ideally someone would say "oh, I know this, it's a <link to manual>", but I'd take informed speculation. My hope is that I'll find the two pins that are the serial connection and I can just wire it up to a PS/2 connector. My fear is that it's current + 8 return pins, and I'll need to decode parallel signals.
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I bought it. It doesn't have the PS/2 connector I was hoping to find on it :-) Coming out the back are two nine-line plastic ribbon cables, labelled XT1 and XT2. Before I start pushing electrons through it with the Arduino in the hopes that I can make sense of it, can anyone give me a lead? Ideally someone would say "oh, I know this, it's a <link to manual>", but I'd take informed speculation. My hope is that I'll find the two pins that are the serial connection and I can just wire it up to a PS/2 connector. My fear is that it's current + 8 return pins, and I'll need to decode parallel signals.
Any progress? What type of switch? Found one online NIB and wondering if it is worth my time.