Help identifying a keyboard? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Sep 2007

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Subject: Re: Help identifying a keyboard?
   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
   Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:48:36 -0600
     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
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Seth Morabito wrote:
  Hi folks,

 Can anyone help identify the keyboard in these photos? (apart from the 
 obvious, that it's made by Stackpole and has a part number of 86-90-0048 ;)

 http://www.loomcom.com/junk/stackpole1.jpg
 http://www.loomcom.com/junk/stackpole2.jpg

 I picked it up for fifty cents at a swap meet in the hopes that it might 
 be an ASCII keyboard that I could use in an Apple I replica, but given 
 that it has a 40-pin DIP socket, it's clearly not (it was very early in 
 the morning, what can I say).  It has a five-pin power header on the top 
 left, two red LED indicators, the aforementioned 40-pin DIP socket, and 
 only one IC, an SN7414N, so it's obviously not doing much logic. Well it is a
nice keyboard ... better built than todays 39 cent keyboards.
You could be missing the keyboard encoder chip ( the 40 pin socket).
But that still leaves where do you get output from.

> -Seth
>  
Sounds like similar to a keyboard I have but the chip is an 8048 not a 
keyboard encoder.  The data was output on the 5pin connector in serial 
format. The 8048 micro did the key scanning and serial IO.

Allison