deskthority

Hello keyboard comrades!

I've been lurking around the forums for a bit now. I'm hoping someone might have some pictures or information on terminal computers used in public libraries from 1993'ish to 2000's. I remember very distinctly my local public library here in southern California having keyboards on these machines that were very unique. They had specific key labels for search functions related to finding books in the database. Some were unique colors like red, green and blue. They were glossy and most interestingly had a very unique feel to the key switches.

Thanks for reading!

Were they perhaps keyboards with relegendable keys? wiki/Relegendable_key

I'm afraid I can't offer much insight into the switches, I'm still learning the basics myself.

You mean this?

That's a Wyse WY30 keyboard. Dynix is the catalogue software they used to use.
The switches should be Cherry MX blacks.

Here you can get one, http://www.movesurplus.com/product/dyni ... -01-wyse-1
And somebody at reddit successfully converted one, https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyb ... o_soarers/

Wow,
That is it! You guys are the best.