I've been wondering how to deal with keys on an HP
"Programmer" LCD
calculator. I'll just get a cheap keyboard and cut out the pads.
I thought I knew most of the HP calculators, but I can't think of one
that's called the 'Programmer'. The nearest would be the HP16C (codename
'Pr' IIRC) which is the 'Voyager' series machine designed for low-level
programemrs with boolean operations, shifts/rotates, etc. One currently
resides on my eelctronics bench.
If it _is_ a 16C, then the keyboard uses metal dome swtiches, not
conductive rubber. I also recoemnd against dismandling it, the keyboard
PCB [1] is heat-staked to the top case and it's difficult to get back
securely if you take it out.
[1] Early Voyagers have a conventional PCB heat-staked to the top case
containing jyst the keyboard and a separate module fixed ot the dispaly
built on a flexible PCB that carries th 2 chips [2]. later models have
everythin on the one, conventional, PCB. Incidentally, dry-joints on the
pins of the chips are not too uncommon, I've got serveral Voyagers going
again by resoldering the chips
[2] THese are NUT (the smaller chip, CPU and keyboard interface) and R2D2
(the larger chip, the neame is an acronym for ROM/RAM/Display Driver)
-tony