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

[Mike Loewen]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2021, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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. :-)

    That was a Tandy 6000.  :-)


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