Kyle Owen <kylevo...@gmail.com> writes: > Does anyone have an idea what this keyboard went to? The "here is" key > tells me it's likely a terminal, but the hex key pad is throwing me off. > Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2
On 2017-Jan-08, at 6:17 PM, Brian Walenz wrote: > I've got one in the metal case. On the back is a property tag: > > Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical > E.T. "028400a" [<- the 'a' in pen] > Gov't I.D. "MDA9729530013" > Prop. of "USAF" > R-5051-2-REV.5-93 > > Where the stuff in quotes is from a typewriter, the rest is form > boilerplate. There are also some inventory control stickers from 1999 and > 2001. > > I made a new EPROM that made it output a unique code for each key, but I'd > have to dig up the notes to say anything useful. I never figured out what > the daughter board was for and just removed it. The daughterboard on the one in question has a 6402 on it, so can be expected to be a parallel to serial converter. The daughterboard also has what appears to be "Ditronics" labeled on it. A search turns up a currently existing Ditronics doing financial-world tech services, no idea whether it could trace back to the 80s keyboard.