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Offline UniClown

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Re: HP Hewlett Packard Vintage keyboard
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 02 June 2013, 02:49:37 »
As it is the keyboard for the industrial version of the HP85, its probably got similar keys. like these on eBay. I think there's a fair few of these HPs about but prices seem to be crawling up from 10 years ago when I could have bought about 20 for $20 each.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/HP-85-Letter-Q-Keyboard-Key-Cap-Vintage-Hewlett-Packard-/161019032937?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&hash=item257d7b7569&_uhb=1

I used HP85,86 and 87 for a few years, they were great to type on as I recall. I always did think End Line was more computery than Enter or Return.
http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv021.cgi?read=214703

On my random travels I also found this page with the pinouts for the keyboard socket. Not my stuff but it may be useful for a conversion somewhere.
http://www.series80.org/HP-9915A/98155A.txt
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Re: HP Hewlett Packard Vintage keyboard
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 02 June 2013, 22:33:17 »
The shape of the keycaps suggests "stackpole" switches to me.

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Re: HP Hewlett Packard Vintage keyboard
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 04 October 2013, 14:37:29 »
Sorry for late reply. I once had another HP computer from that era. It had vintage Cherry switches (pre-MX) that were linear and pretty horrible, but the keycaps were very thick doubleshot. Keycap mount was a larger cross than MX, with struts between walls and mount.
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