1977 IBM keyboard........Nice.

[Elrick]

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.......

[metafour]

And it's a private auction.

[dorkvader]

Wow, only $31 for a beam spring keyboard? Are they going down in price, or did someone get a good deal?

[fohat.digs]

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.

[Parak]

I'll add it to my steadily growing stack of unusable keyboards alongside the prototopre.

[dorkvader]

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.

[Parak]

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.

[dorkvader]

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.

[Parak]

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.

[asura]

Have you looked into some of Cypress Semiconductors stuff?  They do quite a number of cap-sense controllers.