I'm still looking for a genuine HEX keypad, albeit not one of those "grayhill" or similar toys. I want a 19 or 20-key keyboard, with switches about 0.6: tall, removable, replaceable keytops, that I can still buy, and about 0.2" travel on each key, with the keys angled at the usual 15 degrees, not some $0.10US cellphone keypad. I want one that's UNENCODED! It doesn't really have to have a circuit board, but it does need to have a reasonable means for attaching wiring if none is provided.

I've had one of these around for about 30 years, and, while it was used to the tune of about 1000 strokes per day for about 15 years, it's not been used for the last 10, except to demonstrate that it still works just as reliably as ever. Those flat, capacitive, or bubble keypads seem to last about 9 months, and then they go unreliable.

Do any of you guys know where one can get such a thing, arranged as a matrix of 4x5 keys? ISTR that I asked about this sort of thing before, but got back lots of "Why would you want such a thing?" and went soft on the subject.

RE