----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Thain via cctalk" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 4:31 PM Subject: Re: Burroughs TD keyboard - was Selling keyboards without the terminal
> On 2018-10-24 5:28 p.m., Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: >> It's pretty unlikely that I'll ever get my TD700 working so, with all this >> talk about terminals missing keyboards, does anyone need/want a keyboard for >> a Burroughs TD700/TD800 type terminal? >> >> http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/images/0/0f/Burroughs_TD_700-3.jpg >> >> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/terminal/TD830.jpg >> >> Might have tech docs somewhere; Microswitch guts, parallel interface IIRC. >> >> m >> > > Sorry, gotta ask: Why not sell the whole setup? There are people on this > list who could probably fix it. > > --T I have a spare keyboard; thought I'd mention it in case someone actually has a relevant terminal needing a keyboard, as per the original discussion thread. As to getting the TD700 working: It's built around a card cage with (I think) 8 plug-in boards, several of which are missing (and it weighs a ton!) A while back I chatted with a couple of folks who also had one (not working) and although not totally impossible it really didn't look feasible without those boards; also of course there's no guarantee that the Panaplex panel is still working. I *may* actually have someone who'll take the whole thing but I thought I'd ask here to see if there's any interest. m
