Jonathan,
I just went to the CMH online catalog and located three keysets in
the collection. All are Xerox vintage. Only two have photographs.
Looking at the enlarged photos, they both appear to have 15 pin
connectors, although it is hard to be absolutely certain at the
resolution of the catalog. (01)
>Subject: RE: Would like to test chord keysets in CHM collection.
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:20:01 -0800
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>From: "Paula Jabloner" <jabloner@computerhistory.org>
>To: "Philip Gust" <gust@NouveauSystems.com>
>Cc: "Allison Akbay" <akbay@computerhistory.org>
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>Phil,
>
>You'll need to give us more lead time then a few hours to set this up.
>I'm going to forward your message to Allison Akbay who is the keeper of
>the objects. I only work with documents. Allison or someone else in the
>department will have to get back to you. Be aware that since these are
>Museum artifacts, many we can't actually use depending on their
>fragility and other factors. All are available for research use in that
>they can viewed, even if they can't be used.
>
>You can help the process by searching our catalog which is publicly
>accessible and includes all the objects cataloged so far at
>http://archive.computerhistory.org/search/.
>
>I hope this helps and is clear,
>
>Paula
>
>I have a cold and probably won't be able to make it to the meeting this
>evening.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Philip Gust [mailto:gust@NouveauSystems.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:02 PM
>To: Paula Jabloner
>Cc: nls-technical@chm.cim3.net
>Subject: Would like to test chord keysets in CHM collection
>
>Paula,
>
>Jonathan Cheyer is doing a project to characterize all available
>chord keysets by the type of interface they use to connect to the
>computer. He has all six remaining ones from Doug Engelbart,.He's
>discovered that they all have "joystick-like" interfaces, and that
>there are two different wiring pinouts, which we refer to as "A" and
>"B". Thanks to Jonathan's work, we're actually able to read them on
>our computers using a custom "A" or "B" cable and a commercial
>joystick adapter.
>
>We'd like to test any chord keysets that CHM has in its collection to
>determine whether they fall into one of these two categories. Those
>keysets may be from the SRI group, or ones subsequently built by
>Xerox for the Alto. I know that there is one such keyset on the Alto
>in the lobby area, and there may be others.
>
>Would it be possible for us to take a few minutes and test the Alto
>keyset in the lobby after the SCC meeting? If that's not a
>convenient time, could we make an appointment to come over some other
>time to do that? We'd also appreciate it if you could search your
>catalog to identify any other keysets that we can test at the same time.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help. Will you be at the meeting this
>afternoon?
>
>
>
>Philip Gust
>Nouveau Systems, Inc.
>3120 De La Cruz Blvd., Suite 120
>Santa Clara, CA 95054
>
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