Tandy XENIX Disks

From: Feldman, Robert <Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com>
Date: Thu Oct 24 08:29:00 2002

Reminds me of a couple of AT&T 6300's that I used in an exhibit at the Field
Museum of Natural History here in Chicago. The keyboards were mounded under
1/2 inch particle board, with just the keypads showing (to run the program).
We needed to add an extra instructional label beside the keypad, so the
exhibit preparators screened the labels and, to protect them, mounted thin
plexiglas over them. To mount the plexi, they drilled 4 holes all the way
through the particle board -- and the keyboards that were underneath.
Amazingly, neither of the keyboards was destroyed.

Bob

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From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:21 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Tandy XENIX Disks

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There is one other nasty fault I've seen (at least on the M3, and I
suspect the M4 is identical). There's a plastic post moulded into the
bottom case of the machine under the keyboard. If something heavy is
dropped onto the keyboard, it will cause this post to hit the PCB with
enough force to break tracks.

While you have the keyboard apart, examine this area of the PCB very
carefully.

> had that problems with M3 and M4 KB's

-tony
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