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Another mystery solved. Source of my vintage ALPS doubleshot
Posted: 18 Feb 2012, 17:05
by 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.
Posted: 18 Feb 2012, 17:43
by byFd
beautiful caps!
nice find
Posted: 18 Feb 2012, 18:19
by Goly
Awesome caps
Posted: 18 Feb 2012, 21:13
by nathanscribe
Next step the Petticoat V, eh?
Posted: 19 Feb 2012, 04:14
by Icarium
Very sexy!!!
EDIT:
I keep saying I don't care about caps but colored DS are just soooo sweet.
Posted: 19 Feb 2012, 05:17
by xbb
very nice! I remember them...
Posted: 22 Feb 2012, 19:52
by 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
Posted: 22 Feb 2012, 19:54
by 7bit
dirge wrote: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...
Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 10:15
by 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
Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 10:32
by byFd
hopefully this dream comes true
Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 16:00
by RC-1140
Ascaii wrote: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!
Posted: 24 Feb 2012, 02:36
by rodtang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk
They were also sold in the UK, that might explain it.
Posted: 24 Feb 2012, 13:48
by Ascaii
yeah, got that info aswell, just didnt feel like bumping up the thread again^^. Thanks
Posted: 24 Feb 2012, 17:56
by ripster
Posted: 26 Feb 2012, 22:53
by 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.
Posted: 13 Mar 2015, 11:30
by strafe
Telecom Australia had the same computers. A bit more info here
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=871
Posted: 13 Mar 2015, 13:19
by seebart
great find Ascaii! I´d love to own that New Zealand Telecom Computerphone in it´s original state.
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Posted: 13 Mar 2015, 13:24
by guk
Nice necro, I only used this thread as a reference in the great finds thread..
