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Weird keyboard connector: Ivan Ivanovich required!
« on: Sun, 21 April 2013, 06:39:59 »
http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=171009958380#ht_708wt_796

Does that look like Cherry MX stems to you? But the connector looks weird - not like any parallel printer IIEE. Is that something from a proprietary (pun intended) communist system built in the 1950s? I imagine Cosmo-naughty people using that keyboard...
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Re: Weird keyboard connector: Ivan Ivanovich required!
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 22 April 2013, 12:49:59 »
That keyboard is very interesting, I have no idea what kind of connector that is, but the keyboard looks military grade... It may have been used in nuclear facilities as well, but I don't really know. The key switches seem to be linear because they have just enough room for the spring, or at least from the picture that's all the room they have. It could be a hall effect aswell... I would steal it for myself if it didn't have that odd connector :P
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Re: Weird keyboard connector: Ivan Ivanovich required!
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 22 April 2013, 13:08:48 »
P.S. If you change the topic to "Soviet Union Keyboard" you'll get better views. :)
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Re: Weird keyboard connector: Ivan Ivanovich required!
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 22 April 2013, 13:16:36 »
Sorry, I don't know about this one. I guess it was from some sort of terminal made in late 70's.