KBK update for Friday, 26th November

Data Electronics, another obscure keyboard manufacturer from the 1970s, is another organisation to have considered the idea of wired inductive encoding. In their case, neither of the advertisements found gives any indication of the switch type or encoding type used, and there were no photographs of their products. Data Electronics appear to have been in business for ten years, so they must have had some success with sales. The encoding technique is similar to that used by NAVCOR’s Model 1067.

A marginally less obscure organisation is Nutronics, simply on account of the fact that one keyboard has been documented, model Keykode KA101-7. There is no trace of the company itself, no Nutronics patents have shown up, and the photographs of the keyboard do not show how it works.

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