There are a few to choose from: keyboard without numeric keypad
keyboard with numeric keypad numeric keypad only I'm not going to guess at the part numbers . Contact me off list when you get a chance. Thanks, Paul On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Rick Bensene <ri...@bensene.com> wrote: > Hello, all, > > I have an otherwise good DECWriter II (LA-36) terminal that has a bad > keyboard. A number of the keyswitches are messed up (the little gold > contacts are mangled or the switch assembly itself is damaged), and the > nature of the Cherry-made keyboard in this thing is that the keyswitch > modules are not individually replaceable. > > I'm querying the list to see if anyone out there may have a parts LA-36, > or a spare keyboard assembly for same that I can get my hands on. I'd like > to get this thing running again, but with a bad keyboard, even though it > all works great (I can test that the keys that are messed up are scanned > properly by shorting across the PCB traces and the terminal responds > appropriately), it's pretty much useless. > > Somewhere in the life of this machine something HEAVY fell/dropped on the > keyboard, and about 1/3rd of the keyswitches ended up getting mangled as > well as some of the keycaps. The only option appears to be to find a > replacement for the whole keyboard assembly. > > Thanks in advance, > > -Rick > --- > Rick Bensene > The Old Calculator Museum > http://oldcalculatormuseum.com > > > > > >
