28 Apr
2010
28 Apr
'10
3:44 p.m.
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:17:22 +0100
From: "Andrew Burton" <aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for an Apple /// keytop
Or how about a way to replace key labels? The bottom right leg of the 'K'
on
my laptop is half gone. Other letters are also being worn away in places.
Sure I could use plain old white labels and write (or print) letters on
them, but it would look very tacky :(
Are the Apple III keycaps at all similar to the IIe keycaps? I have a
bunch of new Apple IIe Platinum (extended) keyboards in the attic. If
it's useful to you we can work something out off list.
I thought I could use the key switches (from the IIe) on Mac Plus
keyboards, but they're a little too different. Still, it's tempting to
rig up a micro to take the IIe input and convert it to the Plus protocol,
but really, when would I get far enough through the project queue to do
that?
Jeff Walther
I'm looking for the 6 keytop from the numeric keypad for an Apple ///.
I've already replaced the broken-off keyswitch, but, of course the
keytop is long gone.
On a related subject, has anyone managed to make their own keycaps
either
by using ah ome-made injection moulding machine (I've seen a couple of
books on this, and the average keycap is small enough to be made that
way) or using one of htose rapid prototyping machines ('3D printers')?
-tony 
28 Apr
28 Apr
5:52 p.m.
New subject: Help Forwarding a pair of boards
Dear Friends,
I got on ebay a pair of boards I was looking for my logic analyzer.
Unfortunately the seller doesn't send them to Brasil.
Is there a friend who could forward these boards for me? Of course you
can open up the packet and inspect the contents. Of course, I pay for your
time.
Thanks a lot!!! I;m crazy for these boards
Alexandre Souza, PU1BZZ
7:05 p.m.
New subject: Help Forwarding a pair of boards
Hi Alexandre,
Did you get some help? I don't mind sending them to Brazil.
Let me know.
Rob
On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
Dear Friends,
I got on ebay a pair of boards I was looking for my logic analyzer. Unfortunately the
seller doesn't send them to Brasil.
Is there a friend who could forward these boards for me? Of course you can open up the
packet and inspect the contents. Of course, I pay for your time.
Thanks a lot!!! I;m crazy for these boards
Alexandre Souza, PU1BZZ
Rob Borsuk
email: rborsuk at colourfull.com
Colourfull Creations
Web: http://www.colourfull.com
9:14 p.m.
New subject: Help Forwarding a pair of boards
On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
I got on ebay a pair of boards I was looking for my
logic
analyzer. Unfortunately the seller doesn't send them to Brasil.
Is there a friend who could forward these boards for me? Of
course you can open up the packet and inspect the contents. Of
course, I pay for your time.
Thanks a lot!!! I;m crazy for these boards
The paperwork of international shipping sucks, but I think I still
owe you some WD33C93 chips anyway, don't I? I can send those boards
to you if you haven't solved this problem yet.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
30 Apr
30 Apr
2:22 a.m.
New subject: Help Forwarding a pair of boards
Dave, please pvt me, I need your address!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <>
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Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: Help Forwarding a pair of boards
On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas
wrote:
I got on ebay a pair of boards I was looking
for my logic analyzer.
Unfortunately the seller doesn't send them to Brasil.
Is there a friend who could forward these boards for me? Of course
you can open up the packet and inspect the contents. Of course, I pay
for your time.
Thanks a lot!!! I;m crazy for these boards
The paperwork of international shipping sucks, but I think I still owe
you some WD33C93 chips anyway, don't I? I can send those boards to you
if you haven't solved this problem yet.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
28 Apr
28 Apr
8:54 p.m.
Ok, it's been a few days, but I've finally looked at the /// that
I dug out of my mother's garage during her recent move. It's missing
two keycaps, the two upper rightmost keys from the main keyboard (not
the numeric pad). Not having the caps, and not being able to find a
decent picture in ten seconds of googling, I don't know which keys
they are.
Anybody gots?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
29 Apr
29 Apr
4:15 a.m.
--- On Wed, 4/28/10, Jeff Walther <trag at io.com> wrote:
Are the Apple III keycaps at all similar to the IIe
keycaps?? I have a
bunch of new Apple IIe Platinum (extended) keyboards in the
attic.? If
it's useful to you we can work something out off list.
They're the same physical size, but they are different colors. Right now I've got
a IIe key on there, it's functional, but it looks wrong :)
I thought I could use the key switches (from the IIe)
on
Mac Plus
keyboards, but they're a little too
different.
Actually, you can... Many years ago, the first original Macintosh that I owned had several
dead keys. I replaced the faulty keyswitches with ones from a junked IIe keyboard. The
only difference was the pin spacing - I simply drilled holes in the circuit board to allow
the pins from the IIe keyswitch to pass through, then soldered jumper wires back to the
proper traces.
-Ian
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