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Nice man, great find.

MrDuul wrote: Nice man, great find.

Thanks, it was just a regular buy of course. Quite cheap too. Notice the layout, no enter or return key rather it has 1u "repeat" keys of either side of the spacebar. It was for some word processor I believe although I don't know.

Is it possible to 3D scan a key then 3D print a reproduction?

MrDuul wrote: Is it possible to 3D scan a key then 3D print a reproduction?

Sure, but what makes these so nice is the quality grade of the plastic, not sure how a reproduction would hold up.

If you want one you could rob a museum, as I have said before.

Anyway beautiful keyboard, I would love to see the system that ran. In all its 70's glory

codemonkeymike wrote: I would love to see the system that ran. In all its 70's glory

Thanks, I'd like to know myself.

Four years later, I can answer that question

Just received the Azerty variant of that keyboard






And it came with a little instruction sheet





The KDS series were Key to Disk Systems.

Key-to-disk systems were systems that took data entered by users from keypunch-like keyboards and held the information on a hard disk. The information was then transferred from disk to 1/2 inch tape for processing on the user's mainframe equipment.

And here's the only good quality picture I could find of a KDS (sometimes called KDU)


Link with a bit more infos in French on the system
http://www.histoireinform.com/Histoire/ ... r5inf9.htm

Damn, what a beauty beast.

Those caps are pristine. Very nice!