I have a mystery keyboard from around 1985. I know the following: - Keytronics model unknown - CPU (?) markings 30293-e 20-04592-054 GI 8215 CDA 19-4148-01 REV 1 PCB 01 A65-02395 -201A Images: https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-back.jpg https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-front.jpg What I haven't done so far is to power it up. And I'm not sure if the EPROM is actually original to the keyboard. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 1/22/2019 7:57 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have a mystery keyboard from around 1985. I know the following:
- Keytronics model unknown - CPU (?) markings 30293-e 20-04592-054 GI 8215 CDA
19-4148-01 REV 1 PCB 01 A65-02395 -201A
Images: https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-back.jpg https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-front.jpg
What I haven't done so far is to power it up. And I'm not sure if the EPROM is actually original to the keyboard.
Can you dump the eprom? I'm curious if the GI chip is one of their more obscure MCUs (or it could be a pic9000 series like the olivetti m24/at&t 6300 used for its keyboard controller?) -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
On 1/22/19 11:05 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 1/22/2019 7:57 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have a mystery keyboard from around 1985. I know the following:
- Keytronics model unknown - CPU (?) markings 30293-e 20-04592-054 GI 8215 CDA
19-4148-01 REV 1 PCB 01 A65-02395 -201A
Images: https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-back.jpg https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-front.jpg
What I haven't done so far is to power it up. And I'm not sure if the EPROM is actually original to the keyboard.
Can you dump the eprom? I'm curious if the GI chip is one of their more obscure MCUs (or it could be a pic9000 series like the olivetti m24/at&t 6300 used for its keyboard controller?)
I can't dump the ROM right now but as I said, I'm not sure that ROM came with it. I seem to recall popping a spare in there so I could program it at a later date. Once I get my burner fixed up I'll try to dump the ROM. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 1/22/2019 7:57 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have a mystery keyboard from around 1985. I know the following:
- Keytronics model unknown - CPU (?) markings 30293-e 20-04592-054 GI 8215 CDA
19-4148-01 REV 1 PCB 01 A65-02395 -201A
Images: https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-back.jpg https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-front.jpg
What I haven't done so far is to power it up. And I'm not sure if the EPROM is actually original to the keyboard.
Also see http://www.citylan.it/wiki/images/9/9b/1082_readme.txt for a similar keyboard from 1979 with an older microcontroller mask rom rev, and http://kbdbabel.org/kbdbabel_doc_schematics_200904.pdf which is the keyboard from an HP-150 -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
That's a KeyTronic foam & foil board. Not sure what it goes to, though... KT made a lot of OE keyboards for terminals in the 80s. On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:17 PM Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 1/22/2019 7:57 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have a mystery keyboard from around 1985. I know the following:
- Keytronics model unknown - CPU (?) markings 30293-e 20-04592-054 GI 8215 CDA
19-4148-01 REV 1 PCB 01 A65-02395 -201A
Images: https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-back.jpg https://ushomeautomation.com/images/mystery-kb-front.jpg
What I haven't done so far is to power it up. And I'm not sure if the EPROM is actually original to the keyboard.
Also see http://www.citylan.it/wiki/images/9/9b/1082_readme.txt for a similar keyboard from 1979 with an older microcontroller mask rom rev, and http://kbdbabel.org/kbdbabel_doc_schematics_200904.pdf which is the keyboard from an HP-150
-- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
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