24 Jun
2008
24 Jun
'08
8:55 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:08:46AM -0600, Richard wrote:
The keyboards get listed on ebay fairly regularly. If
you're patient
and put a search on them, you should eventually get as many as you
need. I've purchased a few to attach to my C.ITOH VT100 clone as well
as another VT10x machine I have that was sans keyboard.
I have had both DEC VT10x terminals and C.ITOH clone terminals for
a couple of decades. My recollection is that you cannot swap
keyboards between the two vendors. My C.ITOH experience is limited
to CIT101 and CIT101e terminals (101s look like VT100s, 101es look
more like a Wyse than a DEC design), and I _think_ you can swap the
keyboards between CIT101s and CIT101es, but they are visually
different types (101 keyboards resemble DEC VT10x keyboards), so
in practice, I don't think we did it much back in the day.
Do you have different terminals and you _can_ cross-swap keyboards,
or did I misread your posting and didn't get that you meant that
you have found keyboards from both vendors and have only used like
with like?
-ethan
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