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Russian IBM keyboard - anyone know possible switch type?
« on: Sat, 09 May 2015, 17:03:52 »
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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Re: Russian IBM keyboard - anyone know possible switch type?
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 09 May 2015, 17:38:46 »
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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Re: Russian IBM keyboard - anyone know possible switch type?
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 09 May 2015, 18:29:20 »
Manufacturer UKNC. That's all I got, I'm afraid.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKNC
« Last Edit: Sat, 09 May 2015, 18:31:16 by pizza_is_a_lie »
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Re: Russian IBM keyboard - anyone know possible switch type?
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 14 August 2015, 23:48:39 »
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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Re: Russian IBM keyboard - anyone know possible switch type?
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 10 June 2017, 20:44:14 »
Quote from: gnat on Fri, 14 August 2015, 23:48:39
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.
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