On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 5:34 PM Steve Malikoff via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> There were some video terminals with mechanical Selectric keyboards, one > for example being the RCA Spectra 70/752 from the mid/late 60s. > For this RCA engineers substantially modified a Selectric 1 keyboard with > many new bespoke mechanical parts to output 7-bit ASCII directly. > The earlier RCA 6050 video data terminal and models 6051-1, 2, 3 > Interrogator used a powered ASR33 keyboard, and the main console of the IBM > Office System/6 > workstation also used a powered Selectric keyboard. > > I've been working on a project for the last few years on and off to > recreate this terminal's keyboard, starting with fixing a rusty seized > Selectric II to operating > condition then splitting the keyboard off from the power frame and > powering the filter shaft with a motor in lieu of the normal print shaft > gear train doing it. Steve, This sounds like a very cool project. I'd love to see the photos you have so far. Sellam
