24 Oct
2018
24 Oct
'18
1:57 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Thain via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Burroughs TD keyboard - was Selling keyboards without the terminal
On 2018-10-24 5:28 p.m., Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
I have a spare keyboard; thought I'd mention it in case someone actually has a
relevant terminal needing a keyboard, as per the original discussion thread.
As to getting the TD700 working:
It's built around a card cage with (I think) 8 plug-in boards, several of which are
missing (and it weighs a ton!)
A while back I chatted with a couple of folks who also had one (not working) and although
not totally impossible it really didn't look feasible without those boards; also of
course there's no guarantee that the Panaplex panel is still working.
I *may* actually have someone who'll take the whole thing but I thought I'd ask
here to see if there's any interest.
m
It's pretty unlikely that I'll ever get
my TD700 working so, with all this talk about terminals missing keyboards, does anyone
need/want a keyboard for a Burroughs TD700/TD800 type terminal?
http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/images/0/0f/Burroughs_TD_700-3.jpg
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/terminal/TD830.jpg
Might have tech docs somewhere; Microswitch guts, parallel interface IIRC.
m
Sorry, gotta ask: Why not sell the whole setup? There are people on this
list who could probably fix it.
--T 
