24 Apr
2005
24 Apr
'05
8:50 p.m.
At 04:02 PM 4/24/05 -0400, you wrote:
On 4/24/05, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
What kind of key switches do these take? Are they the same as those used
on the Intel SDK SBCs?
Joe
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 06:37 -0400, Ethan Dicks
wrote:
I'm in the middle of trying to assemble my collection of 1802 boards
to take to VCF Midwest next month. The ones that _don't_ need
displays are a COSMAC VIP, an RCA ASCII terminal, an RCA Studio II,
and an MSI 88/e portable terminal. The ones that _do_ take displays
are a Quest Elf, a Micro/Elf, an Elf 2K, a Poptronics Elf, and
optionally a BASCOM board. I keep thinking I'm going to burn my own
Elf II board (I have the artwork in a magazine article), but the lack
of compatible key switches keeps pushing the project further down the
stack. Ah... much better. From the picture, just to
comment, those look like
HP 5082-7340 displays which are electrically compatible with TIL-311s...
I'm trying to find a few more genuine
TIL-311s to fill up my Elf 2K and
my Micro/Elf (6 displays *each*).
I think I've got 6 of those displays left - I keep on socketing homebrew
stuff just so I can swap the displays between projects. They look so
darn cool when they're running! :-)
To populate all those boards, I need a total of 14 displays. I have
either exactly enough or I'm two short (have to check the parts bin),
and that's _if_ I borrow 4 from an INS8073 board I have. I used to
buy these things from eBay for like 4/$10, but I haven't seen that guy
selling in a couple of years.
-ethan