Versakey V2508

[Thunderbird]

Got an interesting keyboard off ebay for $10. Was hoping for maybe some Alps or Alps clones, but surprisingly got Cherry MX Blacks instead.

Some info -
Made in AUSTRALIA
PCB Date 07/07/1994
PCB Mount MX Blacks (puke)
Cherry PCB mount stabilisers (very surprising, was expecting costar)
Doubleshot ABS keycaps (also very surprising, was expecting pad printed)

The interesting part about this keyboard is that they actually went with mechanical switches for not only the keyboard itself but the small macro keys above as well. The bigass enter stabiliser is also something of note, since my NCR G80-0582 with a bigass enter has a dummy switch instead of a stabiliser. Quite unusual in the first place to see a keyboard with an Asian layout and thin doubleshot caps with Cherry stabilisers and not Costar.

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label on the back

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Macro keys

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bigass enter closeup

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[ohaimark]

Nice battleship!

[seebart]

Haha in my mind if any keyboard was manufactured in Australia is must be a battleship. Nice find. That macro key solution is fun.

[Chyros]

Yih mite it's a facken bettleshup!

(actually it's more like a battlecruiser xD )

Cool board, I like what they did with the stabs on the BAE xD .

[Findecanor]

That's yet another stabiliser arrangement for the "Big-ass" Enter key that I had not seen before.

[arkanoid]

Nice find! You can set up 120 macros (60 * 2 layers (using cartridge key)) with this keyboard.