KBK update for Thursday, 11th February

Another early adopter of membrane keyboard technology was Chomerics. Alphanumeric products general manager Len Halio claimed in 1981 that Chomerics invented membrane switch technology in the late 1960s, although they did not apply it to full-size (alphanumeric or “QWERTY”) keyboards until long after Datanetics did. Until this point, their market was keypads, such as telephones, robotics and toys. There is no indication that any Chomerics keyboards have been found by anyone, but some must surely exist somewhere.

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