kleinj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Justin Klein) (02/20/90)
For quite a while now, I have owned a Xerox 820/I, which (I am told) is similiar if not identical to the Ferguson Bigboard. Quite some time ago it developed a problem. It used to use an old Tektronix keyboard, and this keyboard burned out. We are rather certain that the keyboard is what's gone, as we have had replaced all the chips in the keybd interface, and the rest of the components look good. I have another keyboard that I wisht to connect. It too is a Tek keybd, and the edge card connector is exactly the same pattern. In the lower left hand corner of the PCB is the following: KTC A65-01863-003 PCB-002D and in smaller type right below this, the inscription: TEKTRONIX INC 119-0374-09 REV D In addition, it has a numeric keypad on the right hand side of the board with cursor controls on the top of the keys, numbers on the front and a click-lock NUM LOCK key, also a click-lock TTY LOCK key at the lower left of the main section of the keyboard. What I need, in all sincerity, is help in locating tech data, direct advice, or a comibination of both...as far as tech data, I need anything that would help me to make the keyboard and computer come together (schematic for the key board, or schematic for keyboard input to the Bigboard, as the doc I got with the old girl are woefully incomplete). Alternatively, I would appreciate any addresses...email or otherwise...that would connect me with anybody who had this info. We have the tech expertise on tap...all we need is the intelligence. Please help me get a magnificent old computer back on line! We miss her! advaTHANKSnce! -Justin Klein- Email:kleinj@jacobs.cs.orst.edu, Corvallis, Or.