Seeing is believing. Looking foreward to your pictures, Im assuming you do not mean your HP 9830A.
No, I don't mean the 9830A. After some searching, I recall why I never took pictures. Haata already did. This keyboard should have ITW magnetic valve switches. Pictures are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/triplehaa ... 8986/page1
Ha! Both of us got it wrong, but Im pretty sure I had a look at Haatas before also. I had a chance to buy one of these ages ago but passed it up at the time...snuci wrote:seebart wrote: After some searching, I recall why I never took pictures. Haata already did. This keyboard should have ITW magnetic valve switches. Pictures are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/triplehaa ... 8986/page1
Technically, only one of us is wrong. If I recall, it has one lone Cherry switch and that was the one I remembered
Look at the "Reset Terminal" key. No idea why it is a Cherry switch. Maybe the gold cross point was quicker than the magnetic valve? That's pure speculation. We'll confirm when JP! get's hers. Nice terminal!
No because I clearly remember seeing one of these with Hi-Tek modular switches years ago, but your dogmatism makes me apathetic to this, just the type of attitude I dont need more of.snuci wrote:Technically, only one of us is wrong. If I recall, it has one lone Cherry switch and that was the one I remembered
Inherently the sensible approach which is often not possible, like I wrote I never bought or physically saw it which makes all this worthless. Apart from that this is not an "argument" to me, just not enough substance here.
Sorry seebart. My "only one of us is wrong" comment was meant to be playful. I only have one keyboard of thousands; maybe tens or hundreds of thousands. Who knows if they didn't produce these for a number of years and then switch to Hi-Tek at some point? I don't know so you won't get an argument from me. I will document mine and, if different, I hope JP! will document this one. I just have a lot of vintage computer projects at this time so I'm slower than my usual slow pace.
No offence taken! I was primarily angry with myself because I can not remember when and where I saw that HP 2644A. Looking foreward to more on both of your HP's.snuci wrote:Sorry seebart. My "only one of us is wrong" comment was meant to be playful. I only have one keyboard of thousands; maybe tens or hundreds of thousands. Who knows if they didn't produce these for a number of years and then switch to Hi-Tek at some point? I don't know so you won't get an argument from me. I will document mine and, if different, I hope JP! will document this one. I just have a lot of vintage computer projects at this time so I'm slower than my usual slow pace.
Right. Pretty massive retaining ring. Of course this HP is a "massive" keyboard!Nuum wrote: This metal thing looks like a retaining ring, possibly to stabilize the mount and prevent it from splitting?
