Similarly, Oncor's emergency motion to postpone trial (6:10-cv-557, Doc. As the CoServ trial will be reset from the July 18 trial date, CoServ's motion to postpone trial (6:11-cv-113, Doc. A trial date for the consolidated trial of Oncor, CoServ, and Denton in front of the Honorable Robert W. Both Transdata and Centerpoint have consented to proceedings before a United States Magistrate Judge therefore, the individually-severed claims against Centerpoint will be tried first with jury selection and trial starting on 7-18-2016 at 9:00 A.M. The newly severed action against Centerpoint will proceed in a separate trial. All claims pertaining to Defendants Oncor, Denton, and CoServ in consolidated actions 6:11-cv-113 and 6:10-cv-557 will remain consolidated through trial. All parties are instructed to file any future motions in the lead case. 6:11-cv-113 and 6:10-cv-557, as well as the newly severed action against Centerpoint, are CONSOLIDATED with Cause No. The Court ORDERS that all claims pertaining to Defendant Centerpoint be severed into a separate cause of action. They are mostly associated with these teletypewriters, which were in widespread use and for which - as you've already found out - a lot of material can still be found on the web, whereas the elusive Transdata terminals have already disappeared in the 1980s and are almost forgotten now.ORDER TO SEVER AND CONSOLIDATE. If I was to find a name for it, I would suggest "Siemens T1000 switch", even though it was already used for the Transdata system a year before the T1000 was introduced. There were several families, all of which associated with eras that have long gone by, and the last ones died out in the 1990s. The facts that we know by now strongly suggest it's a "Siemens switch", but we don't have full evidence, yet (which would be a catalogue entry for that switch or it's proper Siemens name or a Siemens part number for it or a patent that shows this switch and not an improvement of it, but maybe we're splitting hairs here).īut "Siemens vintage switch" would be a misnomer, because all Siemens keyboard switches are "vintage". You can call it "vintage" since it's linked to the 1970s/80s and seems to have disappeared after 1990. Terrycherry wrote: ↑Can I call it Siemens vintage switch? "Maker" people of that era (called "freaks" then, IIRC) adapted keyboards they found elsewhere for that purpose. When the seller said he thinks it's an Apple keyboard, he probably meant that it has been used as an external keyboard for an Apple II or maybe one of the many Apple II clones of the early 80s ("citro", "boskop", whatever), which often came without a keyboard. Having thought deeper about it, and considering the patent coverage I've witnessed so far when digging through the patent history of Siemens and other German switch makers, and in direct comparison of the diagram with your photos, I dare say now, it is very likely made by Siemens Only switches, plate and casing are original, the PCBs have been replaced by wires and breadboards. That's why I've been hesitant in ascribing the switch itself to Siemens. The patent is about a modification of the switch, so it is not actual proof that the original switch - for which I never found a patent - was a Siemens one. This is from a Siemens patent, DE2933983 / US4365903, filed in August 1979. I think, your switch is a variant of this one, except for the latching and the illumination:
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