E3B Aircraft Alphanumeric Entry Device
Naval Air AAAP1000 AWACS Alpha-Numeric Entry Device picked up by glenndrives at an auction.
KBD.newsPublished November 14, 2021
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.
Published on Sun 14th Nov 2021. Featured in KBD #52 (source).
Related
A retro frankenstein machine incorporating a Famicom/NES clone, a keyboard and a tv screen. Posted by
chad3814.
The
IBM 5100 is one of the many "first" portable computers (1975). Shared by
u/Crul_.
Rockwell AIM-65 with a built-in keyboard and a 20-character display, released in 1978.
The
КТ-У1 is a reed-switch keyboard from Soviet times – posted by
psych_1337.
The TRS-80 Model 4 is the last Z80-based home computer family by Radio Shack, sold from April 1983 through late 1991. Posted by
Tomegajones.