[rescue] What would you pay for a Type 5 keyboard?

[Dave McGuire]

On June 4, 2021 7:35:57 PM Mike Loewen <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2021, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On 6/4/21 3:20 PM, Mouse wrote:
>>>> [...] the end result would still be a twenty-year-old keyboard.  Type
>>>> 4s are dropping like flies now, and Type 5s won't be far behind.
>>>
>>> As in, existing ones are breaking?
>>
>> ...
>>
>> A bit, yes.  The Type 4 is a capacitive keyboard that uses the little
>> mylar-ish disk glued to a foam pad.  They can be rebuilt, but it's very
>> time-consuming if you have more than one.  I'm overly sensitive to that
>> aspect of things because we have probably 150 keyboards at the museum
>> that need that repair. (for various systems and terminals)
>
>    Sadly, I've used a couple of Type 4 keyboards as donors for the
> foam-and-foil pads for even older systems: Northstar Advantage and SOL 20.
The
> replacement pads from TexElec did not work on those two machines. The Sun
pads
> have held up much better than most.

  I very much forgive you for the keyboard on the gorgeous Model 16 that you
built out for LSSM. :-)

                    -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA