
Yet another interesting Univac find this year. This one, while not as cool as this one, is still absurd and interesting in it's own right.
The Univac 1710 Keyboard was for a Univac punch card...puncher?...you get what I mean

There are two types of switches, one is just a pulsed switch that just pulses the line. These are used on all the standard alphabetical keys.
The other type is a sustained switch, which behaves as usual. These are used on the modifiers and function keys.
The switches are clicky, stupid tall, and pretty wobbly due to the casing over the microswitch. The pins of the microswitches are really hard to desolder. And the PCB is the thickest I have ever seen...
The connector...also crazy.



































