Yep, the LED display above the keyboard is driven from a serial port
on the 11/23. Some simple logic drives a number of intelligent LED display
modules that put alphanumeric legends above the programmable function
keys.
If this thing gets parted out, I'm probably going to keep that bit, just
because
its absurdly cool.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Graham" <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: EDAX 9100 photos are on-line.
On 11/1/07 18:50, "Ethan Dicks"
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/11/07, Adrian Graham <witchy at
binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:
Long time since I've seen a 'here is'
key on a keyboard.....can't for
the
life of me remember what I last saw one on though....
ASR-33?
Heh, you could be right actually! In which case it's only a couple of
years
since I last saw a 'here is' key since there's more than a couple of
ASR33s
at Bletchley Park......
The keyboard close-up was nice. Never seen a
legend bar above the
function keys like that... pretty slick.
It's just a serially driven LED cluster though isn't it? Doesn't stop it
being slick, mind :)
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