Deserves a picture all it's own

[HaaTa]

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Posting the keyboard shortly.

[E3E]

An optical switch? I say this with ignorance to the nuances of certain electronic components, but this certainly looks exotic. Very nice, HaaTa.

[Chyros]

Wait, what? Oo

[Wodan]

I guess that's just a very ancient controller and the firmware was burnt through that lens.

Todays iC aren't too different but "baked" into that black iC brick material we all love

[ohaimark]

I think it's some beautifully obsolete Soviet EPROM technology.

Edit: Wodan beat me to it.

[webwit]

It's for erasing the EPROM with UV light.

[HaaTa]

Posted: photos-f62/robotron-k7673-09-t14992.html

[Findecanor]

EPROM chips with UV windows was pretty much the norm for erasable PROM chips back in the '80s.

[E3E]

Ahh yeah, I've seen that before. Welp, I was way off!

[cookie]

Most amazing shot so far, no Artisan C(r)ap or other modern Christmas-Tree with unicorn puke can come close to this!

[scottc]

Oh cool, it's coming up to that time of year where HaaTa posts his entire year of finds in a week to sway the results of the DT awards.

[XMIT]

Oh cool, it's coming up to that time of year where HaaTa posts his entire year of finds in a week to sway the results of the DT awards.

He's not shy about this. He did tell me this was exactly what he was doing, for this reason.

[ohaimark]

It goes without saying.

He'd better hurry. The awards start on 11/20/2016 and end on 12/10/2016. That gives sponsors a week to ship and two weeks for shipments to arrive before 2017.

The graphic announcing the awards should be up soon.

[gogusrl]

I got one in a Romanian made hall effect keyboard

One day I'll get a decent camera and take wiki worthy pics of all this stuff.