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Re: [motm] ribbon contrller yet again!

2000-06-20 by ivancu@aol.com

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

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