Terminal trainer keyboard and display apparatus for teaching keyboard operations and knowledge items

Keyboard trainer apparatus for teaching keyboard operations and knowledge items and skills, comprising a keyboard of plural individual touch keys respectively representing individual characters and keyboard operations, the keys of each having a switch associated therewith to be closed upon touching of the associated key, a visual projector to be located within view of the trainee having a viewing screen and means receiving a training film having frames for successively displaying lesson information on the screen depicting key operation lesson instruction correlated with the keys of the keyboard, the film frames having sensor activating code means denoting the correct key location for the displayed lesson instruction, sensor means for producing correct key location signals responsive to said code means, said keyboard including a light emitter at each key for illuminating its associated key, electronic circuit means coupled to said switches and said correct key location signals including correct/error detector means for sensing the key location on said keyboard of each key switch activated by the trainee and sensing the key location signified by said correct key location signals, correct and incorrect readout counters activated by said detector means to indicate the number of correct and incorrect key activations, and said electronic circuit means including means responsive to said correct key location signals and to each activation of said key switches to activate the light emitter at the correct key location when a key at an incorrect location is activated, said electronic means including a switch matrix intercoupled with said key switches for producing matrix coordinate signals indicating the location coordinates of the activated key switch, multiplexer means addressed by said correct location signals and gate means connected thereto for producing a correct input signal to said detector means when the key switch for the key location signified by the correct location signals for an associated film frame is activated, further gate means coupled to said switch matrix to produce a count input signal to the detector means for each activation of one of the key switches regardless of whether the activated switch was in the key location signified by the associated correct location signals, and said detector means having means responsive to said correct input signals and count input signals for producing a correct count output signal and an error count output signal for said readout counters continuously monitoring correct and incorrect activation of the keys and their associated switches.