Another mystery solved. Source of my vintage ALPS doubleshot

[Ascaii]

Many of you might have seen my set of good looking, chocolate brown alps caps:

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Today, as I was researching another find of mine (a Commodore PC10-II Cherry OEM board), I found the machine that the PCB and key caps I found belong to. A New Zealand Telecom Computerphone! No idea what I'm talking about?
Here's a pic!

Source:
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blo ... rphone.htm
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/col ... rphone.htm

No idea how this NOS replacement Keyboard PCB for a New Zealand PC ended up in Germany...but I'm happy to know the history at last and thought I'd share.

[byFd]

beautiful caps!
nice find

[Goly]

Awesome caps

[nathanscribe]

Next step the Petticoat V, eh?

[Icarium]

Very sexy!!!

EDIT:
I keep saying I don't care about caps but colored DS are just soooo sweet.

[xbb]

very nice! I remember them...

[dirge]

Love the chocolate brown and red spherical mate, make a great group buy. Maybe 7bit could help after round 4 puts 20 years on him

It wouldn't surprise me if he had nightmares about keycaps at this point

[7bit]

Love the chocolate brown and red spherical mate, make a great group buy. Maybe 7bit could help after round 4 puts 20 years on him

It wouldn't surprise me if he had nightmares about keycaps at this point

To the contrary:
Currently, I dream of 9 different kinds of Cherry switches...

[Ascaii]

The other night I dreamed of meeting a korean engineer tasked with building a tunnel in Berlin that also happened to be a keyboard fanatic...he bought the original Cherry molds and machines and had a secret key making lab hidden under the tunnel.

Thats what you get for staying up until 3am fixing up keyboards xD

[byFd]

hopefully this dream comes true

[RC-1140]

The other night I dreamed of meeting a korean engineer tasked with building a tunnel in Berlin that also happened to be a keyboard fanatic...he bought the original Cherry molds and machines and had a secret key making lab hidden under the tunnel.

Thats what you get for staying up until 3am fixing up keyboards xD

I lol'd! That dream is … interesting. I dreamed about keyboards too, but don't remember any details anymore.

The keycaps are really beautiful though!

[rodtang]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk

They were also sold in the UK, that might explain it.

[Ascaii]

yeah, got that info aswell, just didnt feel like bumping up the thread again^^. Thanks

[ripster]

What kind of switches?

This says rubber domes:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum ... riteup.php

[Ascaii]

its an ALPS hammer over membrane switch I have never seen before. The PCB has the ALPS logo, caps fit modern switches, but it is definitely rubber dome.

[strafe]

Telecom Australia had the same computers. A bit more info here http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=871

[seebart]

great find Ascaii! I´d love to own that New Zealand Telecom Computerphone in it´s original state.

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[guk]

Nice necro, I only used this thread as a reference in the great finds thread..