Another mystery solved. Source of my vintage ALPS doubleshot

Ascaii · 18 Feb 2012, 17:05

Many of you might have seen my set of good looking, chocolate brown alps caps:

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Today, as I was researching another find of mine (a Commodore PC10-II Cherry OEM board), I found the machine that the PCB and key caps I found belong to. A New Zealand Telecom Computerphone! No idea what I'm talking about?
Here's a pic!

Source:
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blo ... rphone.htm
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/col ... rphone.htm

No idea how this NOS replacement Keyboard PCB for a New Zealand PC ended up in Germany...but I'm happy to know the history at last and thought I'd share.

byFd · 18 Feb 2012, 17:43

beautiful caps!
nice find

Goly · 18 Feb 2012, 18:19

Awesome caps

nathanscribe · 18 Feb 2012, 21:13

Next step the Petticoat V, eh?

Icarium · 19 Feb 2012, 04:14

Very sexy!!!

EDIT:
I keep saying I don't care about caps but colored DS are just soooo sweet.

xbb · 19 Feb 2012, 05:17

very nice! I remember them...

dirge · 22 Feb 2012, 19:52

Love the chocolate brown and red spherical mate, make a great group buy. Maybe 7bit could help after round 4 puts 20 years on him

It wouldn't surprise me if he had nightmares about keycaps at this point

7bit · 22 Feb 2012, 19:54

dirge wrote:Love the chocolate brown and red spherical mate, make a great group buy. Maybe 7bit could help after round 4 puts 20 years on him

It wouldn't surprise me if he had nightmares about keycaps at this point

To the contrary:
Currently, I dream of 9 different kinds of Cherry switches...

Ascaii · 23 Feb 2012, 10:15

The other night I dreamed of meeting a korean engineer tasked with building a tunnel in Berlin that also happened to be a keyboard fanatic...he bought the original Cherry molds and machines and had a secret key making lab hidden under the tunnel.

Thats what you get for staying up until 3am fixing up keyboards xD

byFd · 23 Feb 2012, 10:32

hopefully this dream comes true

RC-1140 · 23 Feb 2012, 16:00

Ascaii wrote:The other night I dreamed of meeting a korean engineer tasked with building a tunnel in Berlin that also happened to be a keyboard fanatic...he bought the original Cherry molds and machines and had a secret key making lab hidden under the tunnel.

Thats what you get for staying up until 3am fixing up keyboards xD

I lol'd! That dream is … interesting. I dreamed about keyboards too, but don't remember any details anymore.

The keycaps are really beautiful though!

rodtang · 24 Feb 2012, 02:36

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk

They were also sold in the UK, that might explain it.

Ascaii · 24 Feb 2012, 13:48

yeah, got that info aswell, just didnt feel like bumping up the thread again^^. Thanks

ripster · 24 Feb 2012, 17:56

What kind of switches?

This says rubber domes:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum ... riteup.php

Ascaii · 26 Feb 2012, 22:53

its an ALPS hammer over membrane switch I have never seen before. The PCB has the ALPS logo, caps fit modern switches, but it is definitely rubber dome.

strafe · 13 Mar 2015, 11:30

Telecom Australia had the same computers. A bit more info here http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=871

seebart · 13 Mar 2015, 13:19

great find Ascaii! I´d love to own that New Zealand Telecom Computerphone in it´s original state.

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guk · 13 Mar 2015, 13:24

Nice necro, I only used this thread as a reference in the great finds thread..