deskthority

Pioneer Audio video shows an IBM terminal w/beamspring keyboard, keypad and laser pen/digitizer monitor for CAD system.
http://youtu.be/owGlWRzkais?t=53s

I own this keyboard and other beam spring IBMs so it jumped out at me.

Awesome. Looks like an IBM 3250 to my semitrained eye

Also, you're alive! Did you ever do a teardown of that opto keyboard in your profile pic, btw?

Yeah, I lurk from time to time.

I took my avatar pic keyboard apart (Invac Photoelectric) when I first got it but not since. It's pretty cool with the nixie tubes, lots of hand routed PCB work, mechanical wizardry. Nothing like a German enigma machine but still cool. It sits to the side of my desk in my office at work.

I got some controllers for my beam spring boards a few months ago from a guy on here and GH, sorry I can't remember his name now but he was in New Zealand. I haven't tried them yet.

Long live pre-1986 keyboards!

That would be xwhatsit. Typing this on my wonderful beam spring which was brought to life by his magnificent work.

That's just awesome. I wasn't sure I'd see the day when we could use them on modern systems.

Very cool.

Post some pics of your beamspring... I need some motivation to start restoring mine...

I posted some when I got it

http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/ibm-3 ... t8728.html

I accept payment for my motivation services only in the form of kishies...

This is the only one I have that's not in storage while we move. Other than this, I have one of the all white display writers, a small one and a big one. That's about as descriptive as I can get, it's been a while since I had them out. The small one I have is NIB and the guy I bought it from had 20 others but he had thrown them all in a dumpster a few months before. He missed the one I got from him.

didja wrote: The small one I have is NIB and the guy I bought it from had 20 others but he had thrown them all in a dumpster a few months before.