VT52 keyboard question
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Tue Mar 14 08:20:48 CDT 2017
> On Mar 13, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> My guess is that the VT52, VT55, VT05 and LA30 are identical.
No, fortunately not. The LA30 was notorious for having a very bad and very unreliable keyboard. Some GT40s had that same keyboard as well, I don't remember if that changed later. The keycap shapes were different too: larger and more square with sharper corners.
I don't remember the VT05 well enough, it may have been like the LA30 or different yet again.
The VT52 keyboard technology shows up in other VT variants of the same family: VT55, VT61/t, VT62. It is also used in the LA36. Similarly, VT100 style keyboards show up in other devices of that era: Gigi for example. And the LA120 may use that generation of switches, I don't remember anymore.
paul
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