The LK401's are incredibly cheap and not really
designed to be repairable, but I did repair one,
because I had to, on one of my VT320's. It uses
conductive rubber button/rubber sheet/metallized
flexible PCB technology with a microcontroller. I
thought one of the keys had a "dome" cut, but after
taking it apart and removing the unspeakable
crud/moldy food/human grime, I determined that the
crud was stopping the key from making contact well. I
cleaned it, bathed/409'd the keys and the entire
keyboard in the bathtub except the flexible PCB's and
it was like new!
I like the shape of ADM-3's and early Televideo's. I
wish I had one of the "eames era" DG Dasher terminals,
I passed one up on eBay some time ago.
Early Televideo keyboards (including the early PC
keyboards were the absolute best, even better than
IBM's, IMHO.
The PLATO terminal I briefly used at Purdue was the
neatest looking display, ever, but I don't remember
much about it.
--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> wrote:
> > Jerome Fine replies:
> >
> > I presume the LK201 and the LK401 are plug
> compatible?
> >
> > Also, what are the actual differences and why do
> you prefer
> > the LK401?
>
> Yes, they are compatable/interchangable. I've ended
> up with a LK201
> attached to the VT420 on my PDP-11/73 somehow, but
> the rest of the VT420's
> I'm using have LK401's. I prefer the LK401's as
> they 'feel' better to me.
> I think the keys are slightly different in
> shape/angle. I just wish they
> had the flap that at least some LK201's have to put
> the piece of cardboard
> that shows what the function keys are mapped to.
>
> Zane
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