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Did the 2200 keyboard have a solenoid built into it to made a tactile typewriter-like "clunk" when you pressed a key? I have a hazy memory that it did, but it's
by dcminter 4y ago
Did the 2200 keyboard have a solenoid built into it to made a tactile typewriter-like "clunk" when you pressed a key? I have a hazy memory that it did, but it's been so long since I sat in front of one that I'm not sure if it's a constructed memory based on some anecdote of my father's!
Thank you for your site - I have a great fondness for those old systems I grew up around.
- tasty_freeze 4y agoThe schematic for the "7048" keyboard logic shows a PNP transistor controlling an output labeled "Clicker". It doesn't show what it is connected to, but I'm 99% sure it is a solenoid because there is a flyback diode protecting that transistor.
- dcminter 4y agoAmazing, thank you!