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Prehistoric Hitachi Micro Switch Keyboard
Posted: 02 Apr 2020, 18:19
by JP!
I recently won this from Yahoo! Auctions Japan. It sold at a reasonable price but unfortunately the shipping was way more than the board which I guess isn't surprising due to the weight of this unit. They definitely don't make them like this anymore.
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Re: Prehistoric Hitachi Micro Switch Keyboard
Posted: 02 Apr 2020, 18:43
by snacksthecat
Dude those colors are something else!
Re: Prehistoric Hitachi Micro Switch Keyboard
Posted: 03 Apr 2020, 08:33
by Invisius
This is a real interesting one. It has the classic Micro-Switch hand-traced PCB from early 70s, but a very different layout and chips from any board I've seen during that era. The 1SW11 switches are the same dual-magnetic series from the Decision-Data punch keyboards, but the caps are a completely different profile and engraved vs doubleshot. I wonder who made them? That Yamatake partnership must've been pretty big for them to include their name on the main logo.
Re: Prehistoric Hitachi Micro Switch Keyboard
Posted: 03 Apr 2020, 15:07
by JP!
Invisius wrote: 03 Apr 2020, 08:33
That Yamatake partnership must've been pretty big for them to include their name on the main logo.
I thought it was pretty interesting.
Also a bit of company history:
1952 Technical license agreement is signed with Honeywell Inc. (presently Honeywell International Inc.) of the U.S.
1953 Yamatake (presently Azbil Corporation) forms an equity-based alliance with Honeywell (presently Honeywell International Inc.) of the U.S. (50% share)
https://www.azbil.com/corporate/company/history.html
Re: Prehistoric Hitachi Micro Switch Keyboard
Posted: 09 Apr 2020, 21:02
by Wazazaby
These keycaps are great !
