Help identifying a keyboard?

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Help identifying a keyboard?
>   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
>   Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:48:36 -0600
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Seth Morabito wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Can anyone help identify the keyboard in these photos? (apart from the 
>> obvious, that it's made by Stackpole and has a part number of 86-90-0048 ;)
>> 
>> http://www.loomcom.com/junk/stackpole1.jpg
>> http://www.loomcom.com/junk/stackpole2.jpg
>> 
>> I picked it up for fifty cents at a swap meet in the hopes that it might 
>> be an ASCII keyboard that I could use in an Apple I replica, but given 
>> that it has a 40-pin DIP socket, it's clearly not (it was very early in 
>> the morning, what can I say).  It has a five-pin power header on the top 
>> left, two red LED indicators, the aforementioned 40-pin DIP socket, and 
>> only one IC, an SN7414N, so it's obviously not doing much logic.
>Well it is a nice keyboard ... better built than todays 39 cent keyboards.
>You could be missing the keyboard encoder chip ( the 40 pin socket).
>But that still leaves where do you get output from.
>
>> -Seth
>> 

Sounds like similar to a keyboard I have but the chip is an 8048 not a 
keyboard encoder.  The data was output on the 5pin connector in serial 
format. The 8048 micro did the key scanning and serial IO.

Allison