[sdiy] source for thumbwheel switches?

[jays at aracnet.com]

I don't know where to buy these but they use to be quite common on latter day standalone SCSI discs. They would use them as channel sellector switches. Usually they would but out a 4 bit code from 0 to 0xF.

Jay S.


J P wrote:

> A man has a cool synthesizer called the Borgfotron...  some of you might 
> have heard of this? ;-)
> 
> He used some nifty thumbwheel pushbuttons on that synth.
> 
> I would like to employ something similar....  but all the pushbuttons I can 
> find are for digital systems...  I would prefer to use analogue routing as I 
> haven't the understanding of a digital system that would function that way, 
> nor do I want to try to figure that out...
> 
> Anybody know where those are sold?
> 
> Jonathan P.
> 
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