24 Jan
2024
24 Jan
'24
12:52 p.m.
I've been hunting for a while now for OAK PCB mount keyboard switches
that I can't find a part number for. I've attached a product listing for
the switch that shows it pretty well. DPST-NO preferred.
Only $0.40 in the early '70s!
Any quantity considered...
Thanks!
John :-#)#
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24 Jan
24 Jan
10:50 p.m.
New subject: Looking for (WTB:) 1970s OAK keyboard switches...
On 2024/01/24 12:52 p.m., John Robertson via cctalk wrote:
I've been hunting for a while now for OAK PCB
mount keyboard switches
that I can't find a part number for. I've attached a product listing
for the switch that shows it pretty well. DPST-NO preferred.
Only $0.40 in the early '70s!
Any quantity considered...
Thanks!
John :-#)#
I see attachments aren't permitted, even on of only 70k. When did that
stop - going back in my archives I see messages from the early 2000s
that had small attachments. Oh well, I'll make some links:
https://www.flippers.com/images/Misc/OAK_Pushbutton_Switch-1973.jpg
https://www.flippers.com/images/Misc/OAK_MysterySwitchAd.png
Anyone seen any of these? They were used in the first Computer Space
games...(so on topic - ducking!)
Thanks!
John :-#)#
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John's Jukes Ltd.
7 - 3979 Marine Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5J 5E3
Call (604)872-5757 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games)
flippers.com
"Old pinballers never die, they just flip out"
25 Jan
25 Jan
6:28 a.m.
On Jan 24, 2024, at 3:52 PM, John Robertson via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I've been hunting for a while now for OAK PCB mount keyboard switches that I
can't find a part number for. I've attached a product listing for the switch that
shows it pretty well. DPST-NO preferred.
Only $0.40 in the early '70s!
I don't know about Oak, but I remember that Cherry switches were still available (new)
fairly recently. A friend of mine used them to build replica PLATO keyboards -- using the
same switches that were in the original.
paul
9:32 a.m.
On 2024/01/25 6:28 a.m., Paul Koning wrote:
Cherry switches are quite different in size and mount from the ones I'm
looking for unfortunately.
John :-#(#
On Jan 24, 2024, at 3:52 PM, John Robertson via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I've been hunting for a while now for OAK PCB mount keyboard switches that I
can't find a part number for. I've attached a product listing for the switch that
shows it pretty well. DPST-NO preferred.
Only $0.40 in the early '70s!
I don't know about Oak, but I remember that
Cherry switches were still available (new) fairly recently. A friend of mine used them to
build replica PLATO keyboards -- using the same switches that were in the original.
paul
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