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The Maxi Man

Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 01:13
by HaaTa
Got this a few weeks ago:
maxi-switch.2900series.jpg
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Pics of the actual keypad (NIB) later.

Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 10:07
by Gilgam
it's for hexadecimal coding :-)
Ah, the good old times...

Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 11:12
by Burnin
Gilgam wrote:it's for hexadecimal coding :-)
Ah, the good old times...
I wonder if there was some sort of keyboard for ocal coding, mind-blowing keyboard with keys from 0 to 7 :D. My father told me he was coding in octal for some soviet chip decades ago(probably soviet clone of some PDP or Motorola)

Posted: 19 Oct 2012, 01:02
by Daniel Beardsmore
Interesting placement of 'F' ... back when it was openly fashionable for computer designers to be sadists.