Mystery mid-70's keyboards

[Bill Degnan]

But that cant be right

On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 12:38 PM Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:

> My initial thought is a clone dec terminal printer keyboard.
> Bill
>
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 9:41 AM Jules Richardson via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone knows what system either of these two keyboards
>> came from:
>>
>> 1) APL keyboard made by Maxi-switch, IC date codes in 1976, p/n 2129-009,
>> keyboard encoder has "NKBD-452 03-004-05":
>>    http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/maxi.jpg
>>
>> 2) Keyboard branded as Licon 55-500129, IC date codes in 1973 and '74.
>> Has
>> three blank white keys, one blank gray key, and one blank black key, also
>> "home mem", "marg set" and "video rvs":
>>    http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/licon.jpg
>>
>> I picked up both hoping that at least one would be simple parallel output
>> and so useful for homebrew stuff, but I am curious about what they
>> originally came from.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Jules
>>
>