Retroleum.co.uk has a lot of info about different C64 keyboards, and Deskthority.net is of course The repository of keyboard information. That where stuff like this should be published, imo. /Hans Sent from my iPhone > On 1 Jun 2020, at 17:48, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 11:04 AM Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson_at_sfks.se> wrote: >> Actually the VIC-20 had at least three different keyboard mechanisms, >> which fairly well can be identified by the keycaps. First you had the >> "PET style" keyboard with wide letters in the Microgramma font... >> >> The second model is the "Eurostile" keyboard... has different plungers. >> Possibly the C64C introduced yet another type of plunger > > I would be interested to see a list of what plungers there are across > the entire line. I have at least 3 machines with broken plungers - a > C128 and C64 that came to me that way, and a PET graphic keyboard I > dropped on a concrete floor when I was sorting parts. :-( > > I also have a long, long dead shift lock for a PET graphic keyboard. > Back when I was 14, my brothers and I played a lot of Space Invaders. > A *lot*. We wore through the gold layer on the 4, 6, and A keys. You > could see circles of exposed copper on the pads. I bought a > replacement PCB from the local dealer ($35!) and replaced it myself. > I kept the old harness and made an extension cable from it and brought > 4 lines out and made an external arcade button interface so we could > play on those buttons and not the keyboard. Unfortunately for me, in > the process of replacing the wires to the shift-lock, being 14, I > melted the mechanism. We never had a shift lock again (I didn't go > get a replacement). It's not important to me to replace it, but it > reminds me that I've seen multiple types of shift lock switch over the > years. This one had a plastic body with metal pins, as opposed to > those I've seen with a tiny circuit board and pads and short bare > jumper wires. > > This is the sort of thing that would make an excellent photo study on > a Wiki page somewhere. > > -ethan >Received on 2020-06-01 19:00:03
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