Intellivision Keyboard component protos

[alex.pace]

I've found unique keyboard component (intellivision) prototypes, check here!

http://www.gamescollection.it/collections/a/138

I think that this is the best intellivision collection in the world, what is your opinion?

[alex.pace]

Hey, I thought they were interesting!

[Tempest]

They're amazing. I just wish there were pictures of everything running and some descriptions of any differences. I'd kill for a collection like that, but then again my wife would kill ME if I had a collection like that.

Tempest

[alex.pace]

I have to try all them on my keyboard component.

I must be very careful because mine it is one of the few KCs left with a working tape driver.

Maybe tapes decayed, but I must try and check.

If they work I'll make photos and videos.

[Tempest]

I have to try all them on my keyboard component.

I must be very careful because mine it is one of the few KCs left with a working tape driver.

Maybe tapes decayed, but I must try and check.

If they work I'll make photos and videos.

You might want to make a copy of those tapes first, although that might not be possible (I thought I read that somewhere).

BTW, what is it about KC tape drives that go bad? I know several people with non-working KC because the tape drives are bad. Is it something that can be fixed easily?

Tempest

[alex.pace]

The tape driver of the keyboard component isn't a normal tape driver, it is made to read simultaneously two parts of the tape, a sound part and a part containing the software.

Also tapes are special and so cannot be copied in normal ways.

At moment the only man at world who can repair the KC tape driver is Frank Palazzolo, a genius engineer who reverse engineered the keyboard component.

I am in contact with people who originally developed it, but too much time has passed and they don't remember a lot about it (in a few words they are no more able to repair it).