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webwit wrote: 09 Dec 2024, 22:53 Great find! Business must have been tight at the knight rider foundation. The beggars had to use a cheap IBM terminal clone.

Ha! Yes, indeed!!!! And thank you!

Holy shiftkey, batman...I think I may have found it!

Check it out: https://genesisoneg77.blogspot.com/p/genesis-one-g-77-terminal.html

Anyone ever hear of the Genesis One G-77? Well NOW you have!

Thanks everyone here for the discussion...it helped lead me to this place!
https://blogger ...

Believe it or not, a lot of the computer stuff (anything "high tech", basically) in a lot of those old shows were... cardboard. There were companies that supplied them to dress sets. Most of them are in the real estate industry now, providing cardboard models of home furnishings to dress empty ...

I don't know, but it's funny that they also used it with a IBM 3270, with like a fucking monitor inside the monitor? :?


Yes, exactly. Good eye, thank you, webwit. That's why I added this at the bottom of my original post:


EDIT: There are pics on the internet of this same keyboard being mis ...

These are screenshots from two episodes of Knight Rider, the earliest of which has a filming date of August 1982, so we know that this can't be any newer than that. Chances are, they are from the 70s though.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl ...

Excellent work on the above video! I just left a thumbs up and a comment.

Curious, did anyone here happen to score this recent auction? Congrats to the winner!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/284640780674

Just wanted to potentially collaborate with all those here who cherish these models, because I'd ...

Everyone, thank you, this is EXACTLY the information and prospective I was hoping to gain here! I knew this network went far and wide, and I'm so thankful for it, and all of you.

I'm wondering if https://linustechtips.com/profile/774696-army_greywolf/ is actually the seller, not the buyer in this ...

So, a friend of mine sent me an email on this keyboard this morning:

https://ebay.to/3qJuhoh

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yP-65NASpy8/X9MOiixm0JI/AAAAAAAAM34/afuGIl2_RmgPD1vbElhy8G2CdzQ3PiR7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b6XMjjhHDmc/X9MOikXWudI/AAAAAAAAM30/Jvdihf_sO ...

Thank you mr_a500 , I think you're absolutely correct, thank you so much for identifying this. I've updated the video to reflect your results!

Best,
AJ

mr_a500 wrote: 24 Nov 2020, 12:26 That's from some version of the Incoterm SPD.

I made this video specifically for everyone here. Does anyone have any insight into what machine(s) this could be for?

https://youtu.be/0Os420mBGtI

Best all,
AJ

Thought about going for them, but it looks like they're going to a good home :) .

However, I'd be VERY surprised if the keyboards in those pictures are Key Tronic. They look more like Cortron/ITW switches to me.


And that is why I value this forum...the expanse of knowledge and experience here ...

Everyone, thanks for the encouragement here, I really appreciate it! Yes, I will most certainly keep you all posted on the restoration and historical research progress here, with pictures and video. I plan on documenting it on my website that I hyperlink above, and I'll make some posts here to refer ...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Nixdorf-Cortron-M3000-05510-007-Computer-Keyboard-Very-Rare-Terminal/163988752674?hash=item262e7dc922:g:MHgAAOSwzfFd9LVk

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Nixdorf-Cortron-M3000-05510-007-Computer-Keyboard-Very-Rare-Terminal/163988754107?hash=item262e7dcebb:g ...

Well, last week I saw these keyboards on eBay, as part of the full dumb terminal (CRT), also being sold on eBay in separate auctions by the same seller.

http://6reoquestions.com/misc/Entrex/DataScopeKeystation/1981Upgrade/eBay/keyboard%20better.jpg
http://6reoquestions.com/misc/Entrex ...

Well, I have found some new information on this keyboard...and immediately thought to share it here...

https://www.instructables.com/id/Fridge-Magnet-Keyboard/

Seeing this author's post made me both happy and sad...happy, of course, because he saved a rare vintage keyboard that he was certain ...

The DECscope terminal is a DEC VT50 or VT52. The picture above has the VT05 (left), VT50 DECscope (middle) and VT100 (right). These are iconic terminals and many were made to look similarly. The VT05 coming out in 1970 would have had other manufacturers make their terminals look similarly.

Thank ...

Thank you, Snuci, I really appreciate the reply and the encouragement!

Yes, Nixdorf is also one of my saved searches, and I find some hits across Germany and varying countries throughout Europe from time to time...

I'll certainly keep you posted here should I find anything.

The keyboard photos I ...

That's really cool, the terminal has quite the resemblance to the VT05, and the later appellation "DECScope" lead me to wonder, do they have any relation besides the resemblance?


Not that I'm aware of, but that's very interesting to hear. When I google search VT05 and DecScope, most of the ...

Thanks for your reply and feedback, JP. Yes, I've had multiple saved searches on eBay for several years now, and I frequent the VCFed forum, and we've discussed this terminal there several times. Nobody has much to say about it, which is really why I started the site about it, so there would be ...

Hi. I rarely post here, but I always respect this community...the absolute best when it comes to understanding and preserving keyboards and their history!

I'm searching for a more rare one. It's a key tronic corp. 065-01149 [-003]

http://6REOQUESTIONS.com/misc/Entrex/DataScopeKeystation/key ...

Well, everyone, I had absolutely no idea that my question might lead down this road, but I must say, truth is truly stranger than fiction.

All I can say is I appreciate the great responses everyone is giving me here, sincerely. It is doing at least this for me: It is telling me that if I develop ...

Please forgive my noobie question here, and if there is a more appropriate channel to post it, or if it's already being discussed elsewhere, please do direct me.

I like to restore rare vintage computers. Most of my interest revolves around items manufactured in the 1980s by Convergent Technologies ...

Hi! I just acquired a Convergent Workstation which should accept the keyboard that you feature here.

I'm wondering, do you still have it? If you do, I have some questions where you probably could be of great help to me.

What I'm really interested to know is, did you or could you do any logic ...