[GreenKeys] Fwd: Re: FTGH Mite keyboard

[Nick England]

 Putting on my deerstalker cap -
The manufacturer was Colorado Instruments, which became part of Mohawk Data
Sciences in 1971, hence the MDS on the ID tag. Mohawk built data entry
systems to replace keypunches (e.g. key-to-tape).
I'll go out on a limb here and hypothesize that this "MITE" label might
mean something like Mohawk Integrated Tape Entry......


Colorado evidently built custom keyboards for data entry systems
>From an earlier industry directory
Colorado Instruments, Inc., Garden Office Center,
Broomfield, Colo. 80020 / 303-466-7333 / *C 65
Digital data acquisition systems (special purpose,
designed to meet customer requirements)
and computer data entry keyboards
(C-Dek) / S 25 / E 1961

Colorado had several patents for keyboards - e.g.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3751612A/en

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:13 PM Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 11/3/2020 9:05 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
> > MITE was alive & making electronic portable terminals in the early
> > 1970s. One was the "Model 150" and there were mentions of it in
> > Computerworld in 1972-73.
>
> Sometime in the mid-70s we acquired a couple of MITE printers (RO type)
> from a source that a co-worker knew when they both worked at Courier
> Terminal Systems in Phoenix. I think they used some kind of parallel
> interface that was integrated with the terminal logic and turned out to
> be too much trouble to mess with for the purpose we had, which was
> printing test results in the factory.     All I remember is they were
> squatty and HEAVY!
>
> Some good pics of the AN/UGC-41 here:
> http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/articleview.php?item=128
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
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