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E3B Aircraft Alphanumeric Entry Device

Naval Air AAAP1000 AWACS Alpha-Numeric Entry Device picked up by glenndrives at an auction.

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Published November 14, 2021
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Picked a couple of these up and wanted to know if the community would be interested in a conversion series into a usable keyboard --u/glenndrives.

Check the original listing for more photos of the device itself:

https://www.govplanet.eu/for-sale/Aviation-Parts-Naval-Air-AAAP1000-AWACS-Alpha-Numeric-Entry-Device-Pennsylvania/4638170

… and on this photo on the Boeing E-3 Sentry page you can see it in action.

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Published on Sun 14th Nov 2021. Featured in KBD #52 (source).

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