Another honeywell hall effect keyboard

taek · 01 Dec 2017, 16:36

Hello,

Here's another pics of Honeywell Hall effect keyboard. Luckily overall condition is very nice, except cable doesn't exist.
Slightly differ from the previous one, so I post it here.

Switches: 4B3S * 103, 5B3S(latching) * 3 on capslock and 2 keys on the top right, 4B1S+6B1D on BLACK 2U 0 key,
6B1D works as stabilizer, I guess.
Keycaps: thick spherical caps w/o blank one. caps lock is not stepped one unlike other things I've seen.
PCB: SD-16238, CAT. LIST: 108SD 21-1, SER. NO: 04041, I have no idea.

Production date: there's 4 digit number 7941 on the PCB, 41 week 1979 I guess. but sticker on the bottom of case says 1-8-82.

inside pics

Spoiler:

seebart · 01 Dec 2017, 16:49

Very nice, looks really clean. Congrats! I wonder what"Material N190" is? Honeywell / Micro Switch keycaps never fail to impress.

zslane · 01 Dec 2017, 18:45

So nice!

taek · 01 Dec 2017, 19:58

Thanks guys, I also wonder what it means. I can't find any info. at all.

paecific.jr · 01 Dec 2017, 21:23

I love looking at Honeywell board! Any hopes on an (external) converter?

purdobol · 01 Dec 2017, 21:31

Very nice looking board congrats. And that PCB is so organic... love it.

snuci · 01 Dec 2017, 22:53

Congrats. I bid on that board but got outbid. I also had an opportunity to buy the whole terminal once but it fell through. It is from this Honeywell terminal. Beautiful terminal too.

mike52787 · 02 Dec 2017, 00:24

if you had posted this a month or so ago you may have won DTA

JP! · 02 Dec 2017, 06:44

I bid on this too. Nice board.

Escareno · 02 Dec 2017, 15:52

miker52787 wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2017, 00:24
if you had posted this a month or so ago you may have won DTA

This looks brand new. Can't believe that's almost 30 years old. I may sound like an old fart, but they don't make them like that no more.

seebart · 02 Dec 2017, 15:59

mike52787 wrote: ↑if you had posted this a month or so ago you may have won DTA

He'd be nominated for sure.

taek · 03 Dec 2017, 10:52

Thanks all,
I'm currently working on how to convert it. There are lots of good posts here in DT.
I'll update the post, when I succeed in converting it.

seebart wrote: ↑
mike52787 wrote: ↑if you had posted this a month or so ago you may have won DTA
He'd be nominated for sure.

It would have been nice. But I'm late.

zslane · 03 Dec 2017, 17:36

Isn't that the same model terminal that Muirium sent keycap samples from to 7bit for Round 5 (and Round 6) HONEYWELL?

Nuum · 03 Dec 2017, 17:51

Looks like it is the same model Muirium has.

AMongoose · 05 Dec 2017, 15:21

Is the profile of the keycaps uniform? It seems like it.

codemonkeymike · 05 Dec 2017, 15:52

#dta2018

gkubed · 05 Dec 2017, 16:03

Such a beautiful, unique keyboard. The Honeywell colorway has to be one of my favorites, and that keyboard is just gorgeous.

You said you don't have a cable for it at the time being - what do you have in mind for replacement? I'm not familiar with keyboards this old at all to tell if that was a common interface at the time.

Sangdrax · 08 Dec 2017, 19:22

Boards like this are my weakness. Gorgeous.

taek · 10 Dec 2017, 07:30

AMongoose wrote: ↑Is the profile of the keycaps uniform? It seems like it.

Yes it is. Here's side pics.

Spoiler:

codemonkeymike wrote: ↑#dta2018

Thanks for the tag! codemonkeymike

gkubed wrote: ↑ You said you don't have a cable for it at the time being - what do you have in mind for replacement? I'm not familiar with keyboards this old at all to tell if that was a common interface at the time.

well, I'm also not familiar with that. I'm thinking of using Teensy to convert it. but I'm not sure yet.

Sangdrax wrote: ↑Boards like this are my weakness. Gorgeous.

Thanks! Sangdrax