27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
9:24 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Dave Caroline
<dave.thearchivist at gmail.com> wrote:
When PETs were common and had revolting chicklet
keyboards I attacked my pet
http://www.collection.archivist.info/archive/DJCPD/PD/2007/2007_05_01_PET_C…
I added the later keyboard on a hinged plate and added a function key
set from something
obtained from a surplus shop can anybody identify the upper set of keys?
That's very interesting. I started on a chicklet keyboard PET at the
public library, but by the time I'd saved up enough to get my own
(with matching contributions from my mother), the current models were
the BASIC 2.0 16K and 32K 2001s (same as the 3016 and 3032 in Europe),
so I never had to "upgrade" mine. I did, however, for the
experimental value, completely deconstruct what was formerly an
airline reservation terminal keyboard with individual switches and
wire up my own grid. It's been a lot of years, but my fuzzy memories
tell me I made a hex keypad for the User Port out of the parts I
stripped from the original keyboard. It worked electrically but the
keys were sculpted based on what row they came from, so a 4x4 grid of
keys from different rows didn't look so nice and was slightly
difficult to type quickly on.
I don't recognize your upper row of keys except that the yellow ones
remind me of that airline reservation terminal with column and field
navigation keys.
-ethan
