Lisp Machine Keyboards ⌨

Lisp Machine Keyboards

• SAIL Keyboard (1970)
• Knight Keyboard (~1974)
• Space Cadet (1980)
• Symbolics Space Cadet (~1981)
• LMI Lambda Keyboard (~1983)
• Xerox 1108/1109 Lisp Keyboard (~1982)
• Symbolics Keyboard PN 364000 (~1983)
• Symbolics keyboard PN 365407 (~1985)
• Symbolics keyboard PN 365407 Rev C
• Racal-Norsk KPS-10 Lisp Prototype Keyboard (~1984)
• LISPM Keyboard

Lisp Machine History

To understand the history of lisp machine keyboards, you must know some history of lisp machines.

Lisp Machines are computers designed to run lisp programing language efficiently.

• 1974? CONS machine. First lisp machine. At MIT. Uses Knight Keyboard.
• 1978? CADR machine. 2nd generation of CONS. 25 prototype were sold. Uses Knight keyboard and later Space Cadet Keyboard.
• 1981. LMI-CADR, commercial version of CADR by LMI (LMI is Lisp Machines Inc).
• 1981. Symbolics LM-2, by Symbolics Inc. Commercial version of CADR. About 100 are made.
• 1982? Xerox 1108 (Dandelion)
• 1983. Symbolics 3600.
• 1983. LMI-LAMBDA (about 200 sold). The Symbolics 3600 and LMI-LAMBDA are rivals.
• 1984. Symbolics 3640.
• 1984. Symbolics 3670.
• 1985. Symbolics 3645.
• 1985. Symbolics 3675.
• 1985. Texas Instruments Explorer.
• 1985. Xerox 1186 (Daybreak) (aka Xerox 6085, Xerox 6085 PCS)
• 1986. Symbolics 3610.
• 1986. Symbolics 3620.
• 1986. Symbolics 3650.
• 1988. Symbolics MacIvory I → Nubus Board for Apple Macintosh
• 1988. Symbolics XL400 → Workstation, VMEBus
• 1989. Symbolics MacIvory II → Nubus Board for Apple Macintosh
• 1989. Symbolics UX400 → VMEBus Board for Sun
• 1990. Symbolics UX1200 → VMEBus Board for Sun
• 1990. Symbolics XL1200 → Workstation, VMEBus
• 1991. Symbolics MacIvory III → Nubus Board for Apple Macintosh
• 1992. Symbolics NXP1000 → Headless Machine
• 1992. Symbolics XL1201 → Compact Workstation, VMEBus
• ? Xerox 1100 (Dolphin).
• ? Xerox 1109 (the floating-point enabled Dandetiger).
• ? Xerox 1132 (Dorado).

Lisp Machine pretty much stopped in 1990, due to the beginning of Personal Computer that are cheaper and faster, and “AI Winter” (industry's failed expectation of AI research).

2021-07-18 Wikipedia Lisp machine

Misc lisp keyboard

• Space Cadet Keycaps
• Hyper 7 Keyboard
• Keymacs, Lisp Machine Keyboard

Lisp Machine Keyboard USB Driver

2018-07-12 by Mike McMahon (aka MMcM) https://github.com/MMcM/lmkbd2#space-cadet-direct