OLIVETTI WS 685

[lucar]

Hello,

a forum member asked me to disassemble and take pictures of my Olivetti WS 685 terminal keyboard.

The keyboard is brand new, salvaged from a recycling center.
Switches are Cherry MX blacks, caps are DS and it is internally marked as Cherry G80 series. I have no more information about it ; I would appreciate any more info You can append to this post in order to try to rebuild a little history of this keyboard.

Cheers
Luca

[Damonskv]

absolutely epic find, thanks for sharing

[M9HM]

nice pics!

[photekq]

Great to see you here, a friend showed me your video. It's amazing to see another Olivetti keyboard model made by Cherry; I don't think we've ever seen this one before.

[Myoth]

jesus that thing is in perfect nick ! Congrats on the awesome find

[DrunkUkrainian]

Wow that thing looks gorgeous! Linears aren't my personal cup of tea but I hope you enjoy it

[zrrion]

This is a super nice board! It look lovely and the foot design is interesting as well.

[mcmaxmcmc]

What a stunner! Absolutely paralyzed seeing these pictures. Incredible.

[ball00n]

Hey! Sorry for nagging you about it, but I think it is too beautiful keyboard to keep only to yourself! Thanks for sharing, and thanks for taking such a good care of documenting it.

[kbdfr]

How about enriching the header collection with a nice pic of your keyboard?
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[lucar]

How about enriching the header collection with a nice pic of your keyboard?
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=20504

Oh , yess , I'll do it

Luca

[weebxg]

This KBD is damn toxic, the layout of this WS685 is kinda like French or Belgian layout, but it's QZERTY, which is different from FR or BE, also the symbols are different too, I'm very curious about this layout.
Can someone tell me what is this layout called? plz plz plz

[photekq]

This KBD is damn toxic, the layout of this WS685 is kinda like French or Belgian layout, but it's QZERTY, which is different from FR or BE, also the symbols are different too, I'm very curious about this layout.
Can someone tell me what is this layout called? plz plz plz

It's Italian, just an older layout that isn't found as often anymore. Have a look at old Italian keyboards and you'll see plenty of QZERTY, though.

[Miky2147]

Bellissima, complimenti