That's just bit-paired ASCII. All it tells you is that the keyboard is later than 1967.SneakyRobb wrote: ↑06 Aug 2019, 21:53Notice the ^~ key for instance. Seems to have the exact same legends.
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- 07 Aug 2019, 17:42
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Found this absolute unit of a keyboard in a dumpster outside an old abandoned factory. And i need help identifying it!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2630
Re: Found this absolute unit of a keyboard in a dumpster outside an old abandoned factory. And i need help identifying i
- 06 Aug 2019, 21:19
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Found this absolute unit of a keyboard in a dumpster outside an old abandoned factory. And i need help identifying it!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2630
Re: Found this absolute unit of a keyboard in a dumpster outside an old abandoned factory. And i need help identifying i
Can you post photos clear enough to read the function key labels?
- 30 Jul 2019, 23:27
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 5297
- Views: 1501615
- 07 Jan 2019, 23:23
- Forum: Deskthority talk
- Topic: DT Update Log and TODO
- Replies: 471
- Views: 318163
Re: DT Update Log and TODO
Any chance of an option for macroscopic text, or do I have to break out the css editor? >_<
- 05 Jan 2019, 00:31
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 5297
- Views: 1501615
Iskra Delta PartnerRinoPog wrote: ↑Hey my guys, recenty got sent a picture of an old terminal keyboard by the looks of it - need some help on identifying it.
This is the only pic i got, from browsing around it looks like a DEC keeb with Hi-Tek switches.
- 31 Dec 2018, 23:54
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: What kind of keyboard is this?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2776
The simpler explanation is that it came pretty much as shown out of a prop junk warehouse. If it was junk in 1985, it predates home computers, and comes from a time when nobody but writers or typists (secretaries or data entry clerks) would have any familarity with QWERTY. As part of an instrument c...
- 28 Nov 2018, 00:28
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Unpopulated sockets on a keyboard PCB
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1756
- 28 Nov 2018, 00:09
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: What is the WORST keyboard which you guys ever used?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3538
- 12 Nov 2018, 17:47
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What's your piece of keyboard unobanium?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 180345
- 01 Nov 2018, 21:49
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 5297
- Views: 1501615
ICL Model 36genesisx wrote: ↑[…]
found this on eBay, anyone happen to recognize it? The label fell off so couldn't ID the make of this...no photo of the back as well
- 12 Aug 2018, 23:01
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 5297
- Views: 1501615
One of the common styles of Apple II clone, sold under many names or none.njm wrote: ↑Anyone know what this one is?
- 01 Aug 2018, 19:14
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread
- Replies: 5297
- Views: 1501615
4. foil thingy I think I spent $30 or $40 on a similar non-RCA branded keyboard like this. If you do get this one, I'd be happy to buy it as I would prefer one with the RCA label on the front. It goes with an RCA Cosmac computer from the early 80's. RCA also made videotex terminals (for connection ...
- 18 Jul 2018, 21:28
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Xerox Docutech Keyboard - cleanup and (hopefully) conversion
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15846
Here are some of the more comical keycaps: https://i.imgur.com/us0ILkb.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/NaUPHIC.jpg These are Star keys. PROP'S is short for PROPERTIES, which brings up the property sheet (inspector) for the current selection (text, document, etc.) Similar to Mac's ⌘I, but more consistent....
- 15 Oct 2015, 21:17
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: IZOT - Bulgarian Military Keyboard
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12626
- 26 Sep 2015, 17:06
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: heretofore undocumented Visual terminal board with SKCL browns
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7470
- 26 Aug 2015, 23:38
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Perfboard for keyboard key switches
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9459
I have made adapters for individual Cherry MX and ALPS SKC keys to 0.1 inch spacing. They allow for 0.75″ spacing by rotating successive units 90°. For the Cherry MX, a matrix diode can be installed either in the switch (through hole) or on the breakout board (surface mount); the ALPS board only has...
- 04 Apr 2015, 19:06
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Unique USB PIDs available for open-source projects
- Replies: 0
- Views: 965
Unique USB PIDs available for open-source projects
Of possible interest to those with input device projects: pid.codes has a VID issued before USB-IF started contractually forbidding sub-allocations, and is providing PIDs for open-source devices.
- 12 Nov 2014, 03:09
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Round 5 and Round 6 kits for sale!
- Replies: 15480
- Views: 4313186
- 12 Jul 2014, 17:07
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Macintosh Portable
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10554
- 10 Jul 2014, 21:33
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Round 5 and Round 6 kits for sale!
- Replies: 15480
- Views: 4313186
I agree; the Rankin-Bass version is far superior.Muirium wrote: ↑Also the musical numbers weren't up to much.
- 10 Jul 2014, 16:01
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Round 5 and Round 6 kits for sale!
- Replies: 15480
- Views: 4313186
- 10 Jun 2014, 04:15
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IBM Displaywriter -- Seeking Advice on Restoration
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3131
- 10 Jun 2014, 03:12
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: IBM Displaywriter -- Seeking Advice on Restoration
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3131
Be careful with those fly plates! Be extremely careful with the fly plates, and in fact, extremely careful if you remove the capacitive board at all. The beam springs break very easily; I lost several when I disassembled my Displaywriter keyboard to get a photo to trace out the matrix for xwhatsit'...
- 11 May 2014, 05:15
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: The Lisp keyboards
- Replies: 42
- Views: 95509
Here is a blog post with a photo of an MIT ‘space cadet’ keyboard in an LMI (Lisp Machines, Inc.) rather than a Symbolics enclosure.
- 30 Apr 2014, 02:25
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: single switch PCBs.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3057
Fuck you too. Fuck you back. Get a room. Anyway, I made some switch breakouts a while ago, for MX and ALPS switches, with a few goals in mind: easy to wire together in grids with pins, allow 750 mil key spacing on standard 100 mil breadboards allow various combinations of internal/external diodes o...
- 28 Apr 2014, 20:12
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Kinesis Advantage - can't go into PC BIOS/UEFI with F2
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2392
- 24 Apr 2014, 01:41
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Xerox Star low-profile keyboard
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5574
The successor machine, the ‘Daybreak’ Xerox 6085 / Xerox 1186, was introduced in 1985. It had a more PC-ish layout, and ALPSy key switches, including some funny skinny ones for the upper function keys.
I'll try to get better pictures of it some time this year.
I'll try to get better pictures of it some time this year.
- 24 Apr 2014, 01:14
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Xerox Star low-profile keyboard
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5574
- 23 Apr 2014, 15:22
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Xerox Star low-profile keyboard
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5574
Forgot to point out the 1984 date codes on the controller ICs. What is your setup for this? Cloudy day outside. I don't have space or equipment to do this indoors currently. The backdrop is an old projector screen — helps a bit with fill, and nobody wants them any more, so they're dirt cheap in thri...
- 23 Apr 2014, 05:22
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Xerox Star low-profile keyboard
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5574