Atex Newspaper Editing Terminal Keyboard Model DIN-40

[JP!]

I received two of these interesting Atex newspaper editing terminal keyboards from PDP_11 and figured I would post a quick teardown. From the two I would eventually like to restore one into the best condition as I can.

Atex Model DIN-40:

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Old news:

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The teardown:

Spoiler:

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Some sort of foam and foil switch I've never seen before:

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A big problem in the 1980's

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Haata also has a similar keyboard but his is quite a bit different and is older than mine: viewtopic.php?t=15026

[ysyson]

Very nice!