IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread

[scottc]

http://www.galerieallegro.pl/zdjecia/kl ... /5332927/1

Can you tell me what is that? Looks like ALPS...

Ha, I'm bidding on that too.

[jakkul]

oh you! Be sure to post your experiences after you get it

[amospalla]

I've found this in my local listings. Could it be mechanical? Do you recognize it?

I've got a very similar chikony one but I lent it to a friend so I can not compare right now, I'll comment again when I get back my keyboard.

Mine is cherry MX blue, also the most silent MX board I own, very silent space and enter keys. I ended using it as my main MX board before I got my current non MX keyboard, I did use it with its original blues but also with stems from red, vintage black, and clear keyboards. Ended using it with stems from a red board with rubber bands, the most quiet MX I have tested, with very very comfortable space and enter keys really.

I also own a modern g80-3000, with windows key (key which I really use a lot) and no fat enter key which I don't like, but still I prefered using this chikony board. It is also quite compact for a being a vintage keyboard. If I had to use MX again I would prefer this one over a pretty g80-1000 and a modern g80-3000 I also own.

Anyway as others says, it can have any other switch.

[acolombo]

I've found this in my local listings. Could it be mechanical? Do you recognize it?

I've got a very similar chikony one but I lent it to a friend so I can not compare right now, I'll comment again when I get back my keyboard.

Mine is cherry MX blue, also the most silent MX board I own, very silent space and enter keys. I ended using it as my main MX board before I got my current non MX keyboard, I did use it with its original blues but also with stems from red, vintage black, and clear keyboards. Ended using it with stems from a red board with rubber bands, the most quiet MX I have tested, with very very comfortable space and enter keys really.

I also own a modern g80-3000, with windows key (key which I really use a lot) and no fat enter key which I don't like, but still I prefered using this chikony board. It is also quite compact for a being a vintage keyboard. If I had to use MX again I would prefer this one over a pretty g80-1000 and a modern g80-3000 I also own.

Anyway as others says, it can have any other switch.

At the end I got that board, it had yellow Mitsumi Miniature Switches, with MX mount keycaps. The stabilized keys are ok, but the other ones suffers a bit of binding, but it's nice to try a new switch.

[acolombo]

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Another find. Probably rubberdome, or maybe mechanical, can you recognize what it could be?

[stratokaster]

Found this strange Compaq keyboard when browsing a local eBay-like website.

The seller claims it's mechanical. And the fact that lock diodes are located directly on the keys seems to corroborate his claim. It also has an SDL connector...

What could it possibly be?

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[XMIT]

That's a foam and foil Compaq board. I have two in the garage, though not ISO layout. Mine are ANSI.

[stratokaster]

Thanks! I'll pass then

I also found this keyboard which looks like a rebranded Chicony KB-5181, but I'm not really sure.

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[Muirium]

I'd post a full pictures thread, if I had any more pictures. But this is it. One phone pic from a friend of a friend in Kazakhstan:

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Apparently it's at her parents place, and they say it's from the 1980s. I know nothing more.

Obviously relegendable, and a bit of an oddball what with the tiny, offset "spacebar"! Wouldn't surprise me if it's a microcomputer of some kind.

[seebart]

Tss that thing is crazy. Cool though. The venting at the top suggests there is some hardware in there. The word on the case reads like "cyhkap".

[acolombo]

Guys, is this a buckling spring M2? I've already bought it and I really hope so!

[seebart]

Personally I do not know but I do know our wiki is your friend.

[Chyros]

Yup, that's an M2. Rare to find one nowadays that works - only one of my three worked, and that only partly at first. Did you have yours tested?

Here's my review on it, if you're interested:

[seebart]

Basically Chyros can answer all keyboard questions with his extensive video reviews, which is a great thing for all of us. Seriously I could see your reviews being "integrated" in the wiki if that's even possible. How do you feel about that Chyros?

What I can do now is add reference links to the according pages that link to your review.

[Chyros]

Basically Chyros can answer all keyboard questions with his extensive video reviews, which is a great thing for all of us. Seriously I could see your reviews being "integrated" in the wiki if that's even possible. How do you feel about that Chyros?

What I can do now is add reference links to the according pages that link to your review.

Haha thanks mate, I do my best .

Of course you can put my videos in the wiki or link to them or something, I'm happy to help out wherever .

[tactica]

Obviously relegendable, and a bit of an oddball what with the tiny, offset "spacebar"! Wouldn't surprise me if it's a microcomputer of some kind.

That's quite obviously a clone of the ZX Spectrum. The "Caps shift", layout and typical Spectrum BASIC tokens are a giveaway.

[acolombo]

Yup, that's an M2. Rare to find one nowadays that works - only one of my three worked, and that only partly at first. Did you have yours tested?

Here's my review on it, if you're interested:

It will be shipped to me next week. I've seen that it's prone to failure, I hope it works and if not I'll try to fix it! Thanks for the video

[Chyros]

Yup, that's an M2. Rare to find one nowadays that works - only one of my three worked, and that only partly at first. Did you have yours tested?

Here's my review on it, if you're interested:

It will be shipped to me next week. I've seen that it's prone to failure, I hope it works and if not I'll try to fix it!

If it IS broken, it's almost certainly due to the capacitors. Simply solder in new ones and it should work.

[acolombo]

If it IS broken, it's almost certainly due to the capacitors. Simply solder in new ones and it should work.

Yeah I'm not that much worried about it working or not, indeed. I just hope to have the right capacitors at home and not having to go out and buy them My only concern was it being rubber dome, because I didn't find many information about model numbers, but at this point I'm pretty sure it's buckling spring

[gogusrl]

A guy I found dumped a bunch of pics on me. The most interesting is this one :



full album is here : http://imgur.com/a/GSa4Z

help me id them if you can please.

[andrewjoy]

Can anyone identify what the person was smoking when they came up with this layout ?

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[seebart]

Best things I like are the secondary space, the secondary enter and the gigantic lock! Also dual shift keys. Very nice. But since I see "Waterloo beer festival" what makes you think of smoking?

[andrewjoy]

Whoever thinks that keyboard layout is a good idea must have been on some sweet drugs.

[macmakkara]

I don't have idea what he/she had..... But i want that shit

[Muirium]

Well, at least it ain't authentic Big Ass Return. They are trying to play the same trick though: ISO or ANSI? Uh… both?

Still needs moar shift keys. For your fifth and sixth hands.

[Touch_It]

Not sure what is more scary.

1. Someone came up with this idea and it was actually produced.
2. Someone saw this somewhere and decided, hey, this is something that I want/need.
3. Said someone bought it, and apparently used it quite a bit.

[andrewjoy]

Its in a bar , they let the customer change the song on itunes so they want something that can take spills.

Myself i would have used a touch screen but thats just me i guess.

[tinimi]

I've found this cat photos:
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This look's like Cherry G80-18xx. But I didn't find it in the wiki. With winkeys and ANSI layout. May be somebody knows its number and could add it to wiki?

[gogusrl]

What kind of switches are these :

[seebart]

Possibly amber Omron B3G-S series, hard to tell from that picture.

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Omron_B3G-S_series