Wanted: old Sun5 keyboard for Sol-20 restoration parts [fwd]

From: Jim Battle <frustum_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Wed Mar 6 21:11:09 2002

At 10:57 AM 3/6/02 -0600, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> >
> > > and they keyboard will work, but the trick is finding the pads. There are
> > > many Keytronics keyboards that use these foam pads
> >
> > If you know exactly _which_ Keytronics kbds do this trick, and you
> > need one/some let me know. I may be able to get a couple. Lots cheaper
> > than Sun equipment....
> >
> > Doc
> >
>
>Seems to me that if someone is going to all this trouble to tear apart a
>keyboard and replace all the pads, they might as well use brand new pads.
>Just contact Keytronic, I think the pads are only about 10 cents each.
>They sure made my Terak keyboard work great, I can even play Asteroids
>now ;)
>
>-Lawrence LeMay

Keytronics end-of-life'd them and sold the rights to mil-key, who is
charging $0.50 each. Thus, it costs about $45 plus shipping to fix up the
keyboard.

So even a $15 used sun keyboard, as overpriced as it is, is better than that.
Received on Wed Mar 06 2002 - 21:11:09 GMT