What is this? Strange keyboard

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Fri Oct 30 08:11:44 1998

> I was wondering through a trift store the other day and found a odd
>keyboard. It's labeled "CompuNET 2000" and looks like a regular 101 key
>keyboard for a PC but it has two extra cables with miniture phono plugs on
>the ends. One with two contacts and the other with three. It also has two
>phone jacks on the back of the keyboard. There are a couple of extra keys
>on the board. One is marked PHONE and the other is marked LINE. Some of
>the numeric key pad keys are marked REDIAL, MUTE, VOL, OPER, etc. anyone
>know what this is for?

It is - surprise! - a keyboard-phone. Those extra cables go to a
headset, and the numeric keypad works as a DTMF dialer.

Tim.
Received on Fri Oct 30 1998 - 08:11:44 GMT