7 Jan
2017
7 Jan
'17
5:16 p.m.
Does anyone have an idea what this keyboard went to? The "here is" key
tells me it's likely a terminal, but the hex key pad is throwing me off.
Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2
Thanks,
Kyle
7 Jan
7 Jan
5:36 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone have an idea what this keyboard went to?
The "here is" key
tells me it's likely a terminal, but the hex key pad is throwing me off.
Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2
Thanks,
Kyle
I recall having one of those, many years ago - and I had/have no idea where
or what it came from. But it was definitely the same keyboard, I remember
the unique hex pad.
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9:38 p.m.
Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> writes:
Does anyone have an idea what this keyboard went to?
The "here is" key
tells me it's likely a terminal, but the hex key pad is throwing me off.
Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2
I'm not sure it helps very much, but here's one in its case:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52561.0
Looks like it's from the same Key Tronic family as the Sol-20 keyboard,
but that hex keypad with INCR and DECR keys is really unusual... a
really fancy PROM burner, ICE, or protocol analyser?
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10:14 p.m.
I'm not much help but is the uP a x51 or x48 chip?
Dwight
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Subject: Re: Unknown keyboard
Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> writes:
Does anyone have an idea what this keyboard went to?
The "here is" key
tells me it's likely a terminal, but the hex key pad is throwing me off.
Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2
[http://i.imgur.com/2ImJmUG.jpg?fb]<http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2>
Unknown keyboard<http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2>
imgur.com
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet.
I'm not sure it helps very much, but here's one in its case:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52561.0
Looks like it's from the same Key Tronic family as the Sol-20 keyboard,
but that hex keypad with INCR and DECR keys is really unusual... a
really fancy PROM burner, ICE, or protocol analyser?
--
Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
Adam Sampson<http://offog.org/>
offog.org
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![http://i.imgur.com/2ImJmUG.jpg?fb]<http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2>](http://i.imgur.com/2ImJmUG.jpg?fb%5D%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2Fa%2FzTgR2%3E=){kind=link}
8 Jan
8 Jan
12:20 a.m.
neither. GI keyboard encoder and translation prom
pretty common in Keytronics kbs
On 1/7/17 7:14 PM, dwight wrote:
I'm not much help but is the uP a x51 or x48 chip?
Dwight
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Adam Sampson <ats
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Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2017 6:38:58 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Unknown keyboard
Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> writes:
Does anyone have an idea what this keyboard went
to? The "here is" key
tells me it's likely a terminal, but the hex key pad is throwing me off.
Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2
[http://i.imgur.com/2ImJmUG.jpg?fb]<http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2>
Unknown keyboard<http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2>
imgur.com
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet.
I'm not sure it helps very much, but here's one in its case:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52561.0
Looks like it's from the same Key Tronic family as the Sol-20 keyboard,
but that hex keypad with INCR and DECR keys is really unusual... a
really fancy PROM burner, ICE, or protocol analyser?
--
Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
Adam Sampson<http://offog.org/>
offog.org
Date Files Changes; 2017-01-01: wishlist: Add "Business is Fun". 2017-01-01:
wishlist: Post-Christmas update. Thanks all! 2017-01-01: wishlist: Ordered Organissimo
album.
9:17 p.m.
I've got one in the metal case. On the back is a property tag:
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
E.T. "028400a" [<- the 'a' in pen]
Gov't I.D. "MDA9729530013"
Prop. of "USAF"
R-5051-2-REV.5-93
Where the stuff in quotes is from a typewriter, the rest is form
boilerplate. There are also some inventory control stickers from 1999 and
2001.
I made a new EPROM that made it output a unique code for each key, but I'd
have to dig up the notes to say anything useful. I never figured out what
the daughter board was for and just removed it.
b
10:07 p.m.
Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> writes:
Does anyone have an idea what this keyboard went to?
The "here is" key
tells me it's likely a terminal, but the hex key pad is throwing me off.
Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2
On 2017-Jan-08, at 6:17 PM, Brian Walenz wrote:
I've got one in the metal case. On the back is a
property tag:
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
E.T. "028400a" [<- the 'a' in pen]
Gov't I.D. "MDA9729530013"
Prop. of "USAF"
R-5051-2-REV.5-93
Where the stuff in quotes is from a typewriter, the rest is form
boilerplate. There are also some inventory control stickers from 1999 and
2001.
I made a new EPROM that made it output a unique code for each key, but I'd
have to dig up the notes to say anything useful. I never figured out what
the daughter board was for and just removed it.
The daughterboard on the one in question has a 6402 on it, so can be expected to be a
parallel to serial converter.
The daughterboard also has what appears to be "Ditronics" labeled on it.
A search turns up a currently existing Ditronics doing financial-world tech services, no
idea whether it could trace back to the 80s keyboard.
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