Re: Unknown keyboard

[Ian S. King]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Kyle Owen  wrote:

> 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
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle
>

I recall having one of those, many years ago - and I had/have no idea where
or what it came from.  But it was definitely the same keyboard, I remember
the unique hex pad.

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Re: Unknown keyboard

[Adam Sampson]

Kyle Owen  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

I'm not sure it helps very much, but here's one in its case:
  https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52561.0

Looks like it's from the same Key Tronic family as the Sol-20 keyboard,
but that hex keypad with INCR and DECR keys is really unusual... a
really fancy PROM burner, ICE, or protocol analyser?

-- 
Adam Sampson  

Re: Unknown keyboard

[dwight]

I'm not much help but is the uP a x51 or x48 chip?

Dwight



From: cctalk  on behalf of Adam Sampson 

Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2017 6:38:58 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Unknown keyboard

Kyle Owen  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
[http://i.imgur.com/2ImJmUG.jpg?fb]<http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2>

Unknown keyboard<http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2>
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I'm not sure it helps very much, but here's one in its case:
  https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52561.0

Looks like it's from the same Key Tronic family as the Sol-20 keyboard,
but that hex keypad with INCR and DECR keys is really unusual... a
really fancy PROM burner, ICE, or protocol analyser?

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Re: Unknown keyboard

[Al Kossow]

neither. GI keyboard encoder and translation prom
pretty common in Keytronics kbs

On 1/7/17 7:14 PM, dwight wrote:
> 
> I'm not much help but is the uP a x51 or x48 chip?
> 
> Dwight
> 
> 
> 
> From: cctalk  on behalf of Adam Sampson 
> 
> Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2017 6:38:58 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Unknown keyboard
> 
> Kyle Owen  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
> [http://i.imgur.com/2ImJmUG.jpg?fb]<http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2>
> 
> Unknown keyboard<http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2>
> imgur.com
> Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure it helps very much, but here's one in its case:
>   https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52561.0
> 
> Looks like it's from the same Key Tronic family as the Sol-20 keyboard,
> but that hex keypad with INCR and DECR keys is really unusual... a
> really fancy PROM burner, ICE, or protocol analyser?
> 
> --
> Adam Sampson  <http://offog.org/>
> Adam Sampson<http://offog.org/>
> offog.org
> Date Files Changes; 2017-01-01: wishlist: Add "Business is Fun". 2017-01-01: 
> wishlist: Post-Christmas update. Thanks all! 2017-01-01: wishlist: Ordered 
> Organissimo album.
> 
> 
> 

Re: Unknown keyboard

[Brian Walenz]

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.

b

Re: Unknown keyboard

[Brent Hilpert]

Kyle Owen  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.