deskthority

Something cool before I go on my mid-exam vacation for a week

This is a medical imaging keyboard from GE. I didn't have anything from GE yet, so was curious.
It uses linear RAFI switches (probably licensed from ITW).
The internal computer is fully shielded, and it seems like the manufacture date is somewhere between 1998 and 2001.








That is one big ferrite...





Runs at a whopping 8 MHz...








Etiquette? lolwut


Tactile dome switches


Something tells me, the keyboards NKRO...








One of the reasons why the keyboard is so heavy (cast aluminium)

Nice find, and thanks for sharing.
I alwlays wonder how you manage to find all this stuff.

By the way, "étiquette" is French and just means "label"

That is perfect timing, I was wondering when I would find time to make pics of the keyboard someone gave me yesterday and which happens to have the same switches and same doubleshot keycaps as that GE keyboard.
If anybody is interested, precisely the same as mine is listed on eBay.

I have a RAFI board, a more modern one (link), switches looks the same I think RS76M (link)

Nice find

Goes to show how good my French is...

I have my sources
My awesome:dud ratio is pretty good, though I've paid quite a bit for crap in the past...which makes the wallet sad.
One of my eventual goals is to document the protocols and make converters for all my non-standard keyboards, so I purposefully go after the keyboards that I know do not work with modern computers.
So if anyone has something they think I'd be interested in, let me know.

And why hasn't anyone written a RAFI switch article in the wiki yet! (It may take some research into ITW though)

Haata, ive got two keytronic pcbs from some terminal machines, would you want them?

Ascaii wrote:Haata, ive got two keytronic pcbs from some terminal machines, would you want them?

Hmm, right now. Probably not.
I'm about to move again soon (and in truth, I got enough Key Tronic stuff ).

When I get back, I'll post the Burroughs/Honeywell keyboards I got a while ago (I have 2 of them, so one of them is up for trade/sale if there is interest). Uses Honeywell Hall Effect switches.

Keycaps does look good