TV Typewriter Cover Unit location?

[Dave Wade]

Several folks produce custom keytops. I found these:-

https://keycapsdirect.worldsecuresystems.com/products/inventory

they might want to produce a retro layout for you...

Dave
G4UGM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brad
> Sent: 13 October 2015 17:04
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> Subject: RE: TV Typewriter Cover Unit location?
> 
> Thanks Chuck.  I assume being over 40 years it's unlikely we'll ever see these
> keytops in the wild.  Although I said that about TVT boards and then a set
> showed up on ebay and slipped by me for $40.  :)
> 
> Here's another shot of the keyboard in the original article:
> http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/Feb1973/RE_Feb_1973_p
> g55.jpg
> 
> Rereading the parts list here:
> 
> http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/Feb1973/RE_Feb_1973_p
> g88.jpg
> 
> I caught something I didn't before -- Don says 'any reasonable callout'.  If I'm
> understanding what a callout is, that's the actual marking that tells you what
> that key is.  Based on that, maybe Mechanical Enterprises didn't offer a
> standard set of keys, but rather custom keytops that could have whatever
> you asked for on them?  If that's the case, then as long as I could find
> someone to produce the correctish dimensions of those keytops, and could
> figure out from the bad photos what each key had on it, I could potentially
> replicate that and be able to say that's what the hobbyist did back in the day
> more or less.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck
> Guzis
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 8:23 AM
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> Subject: Re: TV Typewriter Cover Unit location?
> 
> Brad, I'm going to say that it will be impossible to identify the keyboard used
> from a photo.  The issue is that all sorts of computer equipment used gray
> key bodies with white letters.
> 
> For example, here's a Control DD60 console display unit:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6000_series#/media/File:CDC_6600_con
> sole.JPG
> 
> GRI (George Risk Industries) probably made a jillion gray-keyed keyboards
> for various manufacturers.  IBM used gray keys, Univac used gray keys, CDC
> used gray keys...it's pretty much impossible to say.
> 
> --Chuck
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