[GreenKeys] ASR - 33 keyboard questions

[Troy Peterson]

Hi Greenkeys,

I'm new here. I've been trying to get my hands on an ASR-33 for many, 

many years and have finally acquired one in fairly poor condition - but 
I think it will restore quite nicely with a bit of work.

I'm working on the keyboard right now and have a few questions that I'm 
hoping someone can help with. Firstly, how can I identify the parity 
version of the keyboard from the non-parity version? By comparing 
pictures with the documentation I _think_ I have the parity version, but 
it's difficult to be sure.

Secondly, I'm not entirely sure that the keyboard was assembled 
correctly when I received it. The previous owner got the machine from an 
estate sale and told me that when he got it the keyboard was completely 
disassembled so he re-assembled it but is not sure that he did it right 
- and I'm certain there are at least a couple of issues with it.  For 
one thing, the universal lever was not actually in the keyboard - it was 
loose in the bag of screws and bits along with the H-link.  I have fed 
it through the slot that it is supposed to be in and put it on the pivot 
on the side-cheek but I'm not sure that everything is in the correct 
spot with it. I'll need to figure that out later, I think I can 
determine that using the documents I have...

But I'm also not sure that the encoder bars are all in the correct 
order.  I have not removed them yet, but I can see that two of them 
appear to be 'general purpose' (i.e. replacement) bars where the tabs 

were broken off by an engineer where needed. Most of the bars seem OK 

but towards the back there is a pair of bars that do not compliment 
each-other... There are spots where it has raised key-ways in the same 
place on both bars so that certain keys that press those bars cannot 
press down because they're pressing on both opposing bars at the same 

time.  Does anyone know what the issue might be? Could it be an 
incorrect bar or is it possible that one of them is just flipped around? 
I'm not sure if it is possible to reverse them...  And does anyone know 
the order that the bars should be in? I can see part numbers on the tabs 
for the bars but they don't seem to indicate to me any natural order...


Finally, I'm not sure how the contacts on the end work...  The 
documentation has not made it clear to me an when I look a it, it's not 
looking right... For one thing, not all of the vertical wires are going 
into plastic levers - and in some cases multiple wires are going into 

the same lever... I'm assuming there should be one wire per lever and I 
think there is if I just move them around. But the levers don't really 
appear to me to actually even do anything with the wires - maybe they're 
not on right at all? I'll attach some pictures and hopefully someone can 
just give me a couple of helpful hints on what it _should_ look like so 
I can re-arrange it - or a functional description on how it is supposed 
to look.


Thanks and cheers!

Troy.
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