oddball (XT PC-era?) keyboard - "dejag" etc controls

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Wed May 6 18:45:39 CDT 2015


On 5/6/15 3:53 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> Rescued a keyboard from the dump earlier which is about the same style/size as an IBM model F, only a darker grey color (and not a buckling spring mech).
>
> Layout-wise, there are no F-keys at all, but keys on the numeric keypad are labeled things such as 'pan', 'curs', 'local', 'dejag', 'vern', and then there are eight status LEDs above the keyboard area
> (on-line, local, interp, busy, pan, cursor, dejag, 2nd).
>
> Does this critter sound familiar to anyone? I didn't see anything at the dump that it obviously belonged with, but I may return tomorrow and double-check, and knowing what I was looking for might be
> helpful. Of course it's possible that whatever it hooked up to is long-gone, or even had already been hauled off from the drop-off area for processing.
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
>


I'm interested. It sounds like it may be for a Jupiter graphics terminal, which I have
but don't have the keyboard.



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