I will confess that was me that bought that thing. I've become a bit of a keyboard
aficionado ever since getting into my TVT project. Where they are of a certain vintage I
collect them either just to enjoy as a visual piece or to use in some future project. $80
is up there but not at all unusual these days, esp. with the deskthority/geekhack guys all
over this stuff.
I've tried nailing down what terminal it came from looking at hundreds of pictures but
no dice. I didn't know about those frog terminals.. hah. Those things look like they
belong as an accessory to an AMC Gremlin. :)
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Subject: can anyone identify this terminal keyboard and pcb?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/172299367709 (kb)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/172290512799 (pcb)
I think it may be a Courier. I bought the pcb, which has "C8080" on the sn label
so I'm guessing it's Courier. Quite unusual with build-in modem. Will be dumping
the eproms soon, hopefully some text strings in there. The seller ripped the terminals
apart years ago for the 8080s and didn't rember the make/model, only that the case was
two-tone.
He got a pretty penny for the crappy probably dead Keytronic foil/foam keyboard ($80)
Weird thing is it looks like a Lear-Sieger pcb design, with the Molex power connectors and
the color/font of the markings on the silk-screen.