[Techtoolslist] 9100FT Programmer’s Keyboard

[Andrew Finn]

WOW many thanks for taking the time and trouble to take and upload the pics of the unit, was very interesting! I emailed keytronics for information or the rom data but as expected they don't have any info now earlier than 2000 so that's out the window!!

It is a copy of a keytronics KB101 early keyboard and with the detailed pics have started mapping the keys to the fluke, I am also looking into getting a modern keyboard made with these fluke key legends on them, it has rekindled me to look into all this and devise a pic chip to change the baud rate so a modern keyboard can be used, now I have done the fluke video cards I still need a keyboard so this has inspired me to look into it all again!
Getting hold of those old style clicky keyboards seems a very expensive exercise!! But there are company's that will print anything you want on key caps for them, so even that is a option if KB101 keyboards can be found!!

The project goes on!!!!!



> On 4 Oct 2017, at 2:07 am, Ian Eure <ian at retrospec.tv> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 3, 2017, at 5:21 PM, John Robertson <jrr at flippers.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2017/10/03 5:05 PM, Ian Eure wrote:
>>> I finally tracked down a Programmer’s Keyboard for my 9100.  I don’t
>>> know how widely it’s known, but there were two different versions
>>> of the keyboard.  The only photos I’ve seen are the earlier model,
>>> which meant that I almost let this one slip away.  It was on eBay, new
>>> old stock, for $36 shipped!
>>> 
>>> All the info is in the manuals, if you look.  I had always wondered
>>> why the keyboard illustrations in the Programmer’s Manual didn’t match
>>> the photos of the keyboard I’d seen.  It’s because I read scans of a
>>> later (1991) printing, which has illustrations of the later revision
>>> of the keyboard.  I haven’t seen a 1988 printing, but I bet it shows
>>> the earlier keyboard layout.
>>> 
>>> The various 9100 service manuals list different part numbers:
>>> 
>>> 9100A Supplemental Parts List (May 1988), fig. 5-21, p. 5-53
>>> ----
>>> Lists p/n 5-64995-131.  This seems to be the more common version of
>>> the keyboard.  It has a block of (mostly) 2u keys on the far right,
>>> angled RETURN key, and arrows by the SHIFT and RETURN keys.
>>> 
>>> Photo: https://i.imgur.com/undefined.png
>> Broken link.
> 
> Here’s what I was trying to share: http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6456.0;attach=11160
> 
> I’d be interested to know what’s inside one of these, maybe it uses normal switches and could be used to reproduce one.
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