On Jan 17, at 17:16 | Jan17, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
>
> From: "Tony Firshman"
>
>> The *only* good things about it were the the look and feel.
>>
>> It suffered from keybounce. They produced a replacement chip for the 8049.
>> That did cure keybounce but broke the serial ports. Hermes fixed both.
>>
>> Once the thin pcbs had been plugged into the QL, the connectors did not work
>> with membranes.
>>
>> The pcb used evaporated 'gold' for the key contacts. This oxidised and gave
>> intermittent faults.
>>
>> I repaired many of these, and it was very very hard to
>> disassemble/re-assemble.
>>
>> Avoid them!
>>
>> Tony.uk/smsqe.htm
>
> Hmm, the same as with the Schön standard keyboard? Christopher Smith also
> sold an anti-bounce 8049, which had the same problems....
>
> Cheers...Ralf
I am not so sure now. Dave said they were ex-Olivetti.
I just *assumed* they were Schoen.
My comments do, as you guessed, apply to the Schoen.
Tony
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