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Offline Elrick

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1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« on: Thu, 01 November 2012, 19:20:35 »
This is for the hardcore fanatic;

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1977-IBM-Keyboard-Model-1742700-EC749888-S301-/271090768495?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item3f1e44da6f

This baby is certainly more typewriter than PC oriented.  Can you imagine flinging this into someone's car windshield and killing the driver instantly.......

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Re: 1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 01 November 2012, 19:44:42 »
And it's a private auction.

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Re: 1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 04 November 2012, 09:04:10 »
Wow, only $31 for a beam spring keyboard? Are they going down in price, or did someone get a good deal?

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Re: 1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 04 November 2012, 09:12:56 »
I bid $30 on it. I had absolutely no use for it in the world, but was very curious and couldn't let it be simply given away.
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Offline Parak

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Re: 1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 04 November 2012, 14:11:03 »
I'll add it to my steadily growing stack of unusable keyboards alongside the prototopre.

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Re: 1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 04 November 2012, 15:20:31 »
I'll add it to my steadily growing stack of unusable keyboards alongside the prototopre.
Why don't you wire it up to a teensy and use it? It should be fun.

Offline Parak

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Re: 1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 04 November 2012, 15:28:10 »
Why don't you wire it up to a teensy and use it? It should be fun.

No known method of converting beam spring boards exists because they are very different from other keyboards, and I'm too dumb to create one.

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Re: 1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 06 November 2012, 09:30:57 »
Why don't you wire it up to a teensy and use it? It should be fun.

No known method of converting beam spring boards exists because they are very different from other keyboards, and I'm too dumb to create one.
I meant wire a teensy to the switches directly.

Offline Parak

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Re: 1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 07 November 2012, 11:50:32 »
I meant wire a teensy to the switches directly.

That's pretty much just as challenging, if not more so, due to a cap sense matrix instead of a vanilla one like cherry or alps. So yeah, very unusable... for now.

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Re: 1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 07 November 2012, 11:59:05 »
Have you looked into some of Cypress Semiconductors stuff?  They do quite a number of cap-sense controllers.