Unitek K-158-1 (NIB)

[ramnes]

Just received this NIB Unitek K-158-1. Since I didn't find any photo of it online, I'm posting mines.

Overall the board is great. It feels a bit cheap, but I find the physical layout pretty awesome!

Not a big fan of the Swiss layout itself, but I really like key places and sizes, except for the big-ass Enter.

I don't know when the keyboard was made, but it looks very futurist for a AT/XT compatible board.

























User's manual:





Imgur album here: http://imgur.com/a/6oZCM

[Redmaus]

Ooh, nice looking ctrl. I like the stepped look. Although I like to have my caps lock remain there. Made by DAH YANG industry. I can't stand ginormous enters though.

[beltet]

nice find!

[Daniel]

Really nice find. I think I'd be very comfortable typing with US international layout on this as the Alt-Gr key is further on the left side compared to standard ISO or ANSI.

[eldorange]

Is this keyboard related to this company?

http://www.unitek-products.com/en/company_aboutus.php

[seebart]

great find! Vintage blues.Nice. Swiss international layout?

[ramnes]

Is this keyboard related to this company?

http://www.unitek-products.com/en/company_aboutus.php

No idea!

great find! Vintage blues.Nice. Swiss international layout?

Just swiss layout. What is swiss "international" layout?

[seebart]

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Swiss.svg

the swiss have always been very "international". Swiss French. Swiss German.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globaliz ... index.html

[zts]

That's one nice KB. I have Unitek K-258. It seems Unitek was a bit ahead of its time by introducing some of TKL-size KBs. They also used a variety of caps mounts. Anyways, a nice find!

[terrycherry]

Thanks to share this NIB with manual!
This keyboard having the Cherry MX Dark Blue variant. Please take one modern MX Blue near to this keyboard switch.
If the switch looks darker and feeling lots of difference to the modern one, you got the rare variant!

[ramnes]

I don't have the keyboard anymore, but I remember that it definitely looked and felt like a normal blue.

[dcopellino]

Unfortunately, the seller doesn't seem open to internationalisation.... As my old looooong English although.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284279115018

[ntv242ver2]

Unfortunately, the seller doesn't seem open to internationalisation.... As my old looooong English although.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284279115018

this definitely has different caps. But same font. I wonder if unitek changed the production or the supplier at some point.

[Rayndalf]

Unfortunately, the seller doesn't seem open to internationalisation.... As my old looooong English although.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284279115018

Those are padprinted, the legends are the same as every K151L I've seen.