[cctalk] Re: Looking for 1970s OAK keyboard switches...

2024-01-25 Thread John Robertson via cctalk

On 2024/01/25 6:28 a.m., Paul Koning wrote:



On Jan 24, 2024, at 3:52 PM, John Robertson via cctalk  
wrote:

I've been hunting for a while now for OAK PCB mount keyboard switches that I 
can't find a part number for. I've attached a product listing for the switch 
that shows it pretty well. DPST-NO preferred.

Only $0.40 in the early '70s!

I don't know about Oak, but I remember that Cherry switches were still 
available (new) fairly recently.  A friend of mine used them to build replica 
PLATO keyboards -- using the same switches that were in the original.

paul

Cherry switches are quite different in size and mount from the ones I'm 
looking for unfortunately.


John :-#(#



[cctalk] Re: Looking for 1970s OAK keyboard switches...

2024-01-25 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk



> On Jan 24, 2024, at 3:52 PM, John Robertson via cctalk 
>  wrote:
> 
> I've been hunting for a while now for OAK PCB mount keyboard switches that I 
> can't find a part number for. I've attached a product listing for the switch 
> that shows it pretty well. DPST-NO preferred.
> 
> Only $0.40 in the early '70s!

I don't know about Oak, but I remember that Cherry switches were still 
available (new) fairly recently.  A friend of mine used them to build replica 
PLATO keyboards -- using the same switches that were in the original.

paul