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Subject: Re: [motm] ribbon contrller yet again!

From: ivancu@...
Date: 2000-06-20

In a message dated 6/19/00 9:53:41 PM, jwbarlow@... writes:

<< It's always seemed
to me that the difficult part of building a ribbon was the resistive element
>>

Back in ancient PAIA days (1974?), they had a very crude keyboard that was
made of plastic buttons and spring wire over a conductive plastic strip.
Does anyone have any idea where you can buy a conductive plastic strip like
that?

Ivan