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Offline hwood34

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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 16:29:33 »
HE?

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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 16:33:00 »
Rub Out
Flush Left
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You gotta love it. Probably doubleshots as well.
"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 16:34:39 »
^ Looks like Hall effect switches.

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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 16:38:02 »
^ 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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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 19:40:24 »
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

Offline Eiríkur

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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 20:08:48 »
Looks like a typesetting keyboard.  Probably from a newspaper.   Seeing the circuit board sawed-off at that angle hurts me.

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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 21:06:00 »
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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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #8 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 21:07:11 »
Cool find!

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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #9 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 22:04:10 »
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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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #10 on: Sun, 27 April 2014, 22:12:17 »
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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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 28 April 2014, 10:51:22 »
That stabiliser bar for the shift key is pretty impressive.

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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 28 April 2014, 13:44:19 »
SUPER SHIFT ENGAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Offline brhfl

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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #13 on: Tue, 29 April 2014, 10:08:19 »
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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Re: What in the world?
« Reply #14 on: Tue, 29 April 2014, 10:13:11 »
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