7 May
2010
7 May
'10
12:40 p.m.
Hi
I've seen that type of keyboard before. I'd been looking for
Canon Cat key switches for a friend. It wasn't the Cat though.
I think these are the same as the H89 Heathkit uses. I could
Yes. That keyboard design turns up in (at least) :
TRS-80 Model 1 (early version)
DEC VT50-seires, Vt100-series terminals
HP262x terminals
HP9816 (compact keyboard)
HP80-series (including the 9915)
TI99/4a
be wrong but it is worth a look. You may not get a matching
text but at least it may give one a key to hit.
My HP9816 came without the left shift key. Raiding my junk box (!) I
found a 'spare' VT52 keyboard PCB. The left shift key from that was the
wrong style and wrong colour, but it was the right size. So I fitted it.
If I ever manage to find the correct key I can swap it back, and until
then, I have somethign I can press.
-tony
Dwight
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Date: Fri=2C 7 May 2010 11:29:21 +1000
Subject: Re: seeking DEC VT100-style keyboard keycaps SETUP and NOSCROLL
From: nigel.d.williams at gmail.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
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On Fri=2C May 7=2C 2010 at 4:09 AM=2C Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk=
wrote:
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> > (Aside: on powerup it promptly had conniptions and also needs parts f=
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> the
> > PSU - fortunately easy to find at our local electronics store).
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> What fialed? Isn't this a swticher? If the chopper transistor has faile=
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> (and it did in a couple of VT100s
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components (particularly low-value resisotrs) too.
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yes a switcher=2C more pictures here including the exploded/over-stressed
metallised polyester capacitor=2C which was across the mains:
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http://picasaweb.google.com.au/109027456703228169358/20100504DECGIGI#
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someone on IRC mentioned that this Aztec PSU is very similar to the one i= the Apple ///
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