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Aftermarket Apple II/II+ Keyboard / Unknown Cherry Keyboard?
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JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
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This classy piece of furniture featuring a solid oak case and industrial themed textured two-tone paint job arrived in the mail today. As best as I can figure this is some sort of aftermarket Apple II/II+ extended external keyboard featuring Cherry solid state capacitive switches. Looking at the dates of the chips on this board I believe this would have been manufactured as early as 1982.
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Last edited by JP! on 14 Sep 2022, 05:11, edited 4 times in total.
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digital_matthew
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Ellipse Model F62
- Main mouse: It's a Secret.
- Favorite switch: Capacative Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
Press F0 to play F-Zero.
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hellothere
- Location: Mesa, AZ USA
- Main keyboard: Lots
- Main mouse: CST2545W-RC
- Favorite switch: TopreAlpsHallEffectTopreAlpsHallEffectTopreAlps
I Googled "mbm2716" that's Fujitsu. "8152 857" just specifies more Fujitsu. "8034EV 350m chip" came up with "Top 100 movies with real sex scenes" so that's probably wrong. "AMI" is a BIOS creator, although I don't know if this is the same one. "026-0884" comes up with an autographed floppy disk from Steve Wozniak.
The II had the Power button similar to your keyboard. At least some Is did, too. Your keyboard also has an awful lot more switches than the I.
While I'm an Apple fan, I really don't know much about the I through III series. Mac and newer.
The II had the Power button similar to your keyboard. At least some Is did, too. Your keyboard also has an awful lot more switches than the I.
While I'm an Apple fan, I really don't know much about the I through III series. Mac and newer.
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JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
The 2716 is an EEPROM likely needed for additional external program memory while the AMI microcontroller is what I suspect to be from the AMI S2000 series family which were used in this time period for many types of consumer electronics including keyboards.hellothere wrote: ↑14 Sep 2022, 23:26I Googled "mbm2716" that's Fujitsu. "8152 857" just specifies more Fujitsu. "8034EV 350m chip" came up with "Top 100 movies with real sex scenes" so that's probably wrong. "AMI" is a BIOS creator, although I don't know if this is the same one. "026-0884" comes up with an autographed floppy disk from Steve Wozniak.
The II had the Power button similar to your keyboard. At least some Is did, too. Your keyboard also has an awful lot more switches than the I.
While I'm an Apple fan, I really don't know much about the I through III series. Mac and newer.