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Pacific Northwest This keyboard

Covers: Oregon and Washington
falter

falter

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I am wondering if anyone has this keyboard or knows who made it. I have a MAD-1 system needing a keyboard, and from what I've been able to deduce this is the one they used. The owner of this one found it somewhere and it has a different able with a round XT/AT style connector, with an Rj11 at the keyboard end. It gave me hope that maybe this keyboard was used with other systems. Unfortunately it is missing any manufacturer markings. It may simply be that someone changed the cable. I've never seen this for sale, but if anyone knows anything or has one to sell please contact me. Searching ebay for 'keyboard' just yields too many results obviously.
 

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I recall that Halted had the old MAD inventory and that's where I picked my boxes and keyboards up. Still have the box with an XT clone in it--ditched the keyboards perhaps 35 years go. Mine weren't painted yet, so were ugly gray.
 
Yeah.. I'm wondering if this keyboard is unique to the MAD-1 or if they just borrowed from somewhere else. I'm wondering if potentially I can plug in an RJ11-RJ11 cable to an XT or AT keyboard I already have and use that with the MAD to see if it powers up. The only thing I'd have to figure out is power - the power supply came from the drive unit box up top. I have about as much chance of finding one of those as I do finding a pot of gold at the end of the nearest rainbow.

I've been trying to dig up info on MAD - you mentioned you had a 286 or 386 once before? I couldn't find any evidence they survived past the original 80186 MAD-1.
 
Yeah I got confused because in my research it seemed like MAD Intelligent Systems and Modular Advanced Design might be different companies. I seem to recall finding an article that suggested the "former" went bankrupt in the mid 80s. Need to dig into this more.
 
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