Memorex Telex keyboard Memorex Telex keyboard restored by lrussell887 .
KBD.news Published July 25, 2021
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A 1988 Memorex Telex keyboard with Hi-Tek Series 725 brown switches. Using Soarer's Converter to adapt 5-pin DIN to USB. It was saved by a lot of scrubbing and some WD-40 contact cleaner.
Published on Sun 25th Jul 2021. Featured in KBD #36 (source ).
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