There are a few to choose from:
keyboard without numeric keypad
keyboard with numeric keypad
numeric keypad only
I'm not going to guess at the part numbers .
Contact me off list when you get a chance.
Thanks, Paul
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Rick Bensene <rickb at bensene.com> wrote:
Hello, all,
I have an otherwise good DECWriter II (LA-36) terminal that has a bad
keyboard. A number of the keyswitches are messed up (the little gold
contacts are mangled or the switch assembly itself is damaged), and the
nature of the Cherry-made keyboard in this thing is that the keyswitch
modules are not individually replaceable.
I'm querying the list to see if anyone out there may have a parts LA-36,
or a spare keyboard assembly for same that I can get my hands on. I'd like
to get this thing running again, but with a bad keyboard, even though it
all works great (I can test that the keys that are messed up are scanned
properly by shorting across the PCB traces and the terminal responds
appropriately), it's pretty much useless.
Somewhere in the life of this machine something HEAVY fell/dropped on the
keyboard, and about 1/3rd of the keyswitches ended up getting mangled as
well as some of the keycaps. The only option appears to be to find a
replacement for the whole keyboard assembly.
Thanks in advance,
-Rick
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Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com