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 My dad owns a TV set with a faulty remote control. Certain keys started
falling off after years of heavy use, so recently I took out the
circuit board and put it inside a home-brewn (and rather clumsy) keyboard.

 It works, but it's not as convenient as the original thing, and I  
doubt this Philips device of 1984 is still available through retailers.

 Now I've got two questions:

 Does anyone know if different Philips IR remote controls from the
80's with "text" functions use similar IR signals and message
encoding techniques?

 Also, I've seen that there are IR controls available that can record
other IR controls' signals and keep the function set of many different
controls in them. Is it likely that such an all-round control with the
ability to "learn" new signals will be able to record our old device's
signal?

 Thanks in advance,
 Anders Skelander