SOL-20 keyboard question

[Tony Duell]

> Also, it could turn into a scene of enthusiasts for one type of
> machine butchering the last extant keyboard for some other
> hard-to-find machine for these components.

This is another problem. And even though I am a PERQ-fanatic and would do 
almost anything to keep my PERQs running, I really don't want to have to 
ruin another rare machine to do so (now a PC clone keyboard is another 
matter...)

To tie in to the collecting-ICs thread, the current issue of Elektor (at 
least in the UK) has a meniton of rare ICs and the fact that some people 
collect them. It also says they don't know of any major commercial unit 
that contained the 8008. Many of us here, I am sure, know of such a 
device, but I am not going to write in to tell them because I'd rather 
those machines carried on computing _with a working frontpanel_.


> 
> Someone needs to come up with a solution using current available
> materials.

Agreed...

-tony