MDS CRT Keyboard wanted

[James Brown]

Dear All

I have a mint condition MDS 800, the system unit, dual drive unit, the MDS CRT but missing the keyboard!

Does anyone know of an available MDS CRT keyboard?

I’ll pay a fair price which is honestly $100-$150 but I might go a bit higher. However I am not one of those keyboard only geeks!!!

One just sold on eBay, I made a fair offer but was not prepared to support one of those estate scavengers.

I would like to get this system running. I have a blue MDS 2xx keyboard which I was thinking to interface with a magic interface box offering the missing function etc.

I would consider swapping this for the MDS CRT keyboard.

This is my collection here 

https://m.facebook.com/p/Retrobytes-Cafe-100093042039641/

Regards

James Brown

[James Brown]

Dear All

I have a mint condition MDS 800, the system unit, dual drive unit, the MDS CRT but missing the keyboard!

Does anyone know of an available MDS CRT keyboard?

I’ll pay a fair price which is honestly $100-$150 but I might go a bit higher. 

I would like to get this system running. I have a blue MDS 2xx keyboard which I was thinking to interface with a magic interface box offering the missing functions etc.

[Mark Gent]

Hi James,

Do you mean something like this:

https://ebay.us/m/c1LPjD

If so the chap is asking more than what you mentioned, but he's quite reasonable, just reach out to him and see what you both can agree on. 

Cheers,

Mark

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[Vale, Martyn]

 

There’s a manual here:

 

https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/beehive/Mini_Bee/MiniBee_Svc_Nov76.pdf

 

I doubt whether the MDS II/III keyboard will work with it.

 

What does the input socket for the keyboard look like.

 

Martyn.

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[James Brown]

Hello

Nope, that’s not the MDS CRT version.

The MDS CRT is the first version, came with Screen and Keyboard as attached.

Regards 

James

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