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You know what's awesome, military keyboards

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You know what's totally awful, the number of parts in military keyboard
It took me a couple weeks to will myself up to put this thing back together. Probably spent around 5-6 hours on it.

It uses *really* heavy Key Tronic Magnetic Reed Switches (2nd variant). And has these really cool stealth lamp indicators (probably for low-light environments).





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Like XMIT's recent hall effect keyboards it also has the pcb epoxy trick for water-resistance. I have a few military keyboards that do this.

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Not my video, but it shows the full teletypewriter. AFAIK is was used in military aircraft large enough to have a communications officer. This particular keyboard was built in 1994.

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Another gorgeous keyboard.... I've been interested in those Key Tronic magnetic reeds for quite a while now . Great pics!

This is very cool.

Dear God of Keyboards, 140gf actuation?! I guess this makes sense when on an airplane that is bouncing around? I would have to use a hammer to type on these! (Julle should know all about that.)

Good lord...literally beauty and beast in one. This is the most typewriter in a keyboard that I have ever seen. Awesome.

HaaTa wrote: Like XMIT's recent hall effect keyboards it also has the pcb epoxy trick for water-resistance. I have a few military keyboards that do this.

Not really a trick, it's just a conformal coating. We put them on some of the PCBs we make at my job.

Looks like a perfect fit for a B-52. I know that the military has or had some of those in service at McCellan.

XMIT wrote: Dear God of Keyboards, 140gf actuation?! I guess this makes sense when on an airplane that is bouncing around? I would have to use a hammer to type on these! (Julle should know all about that.)

You just need to be a Fit individual that works out every day .