IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread

[Lynx_Carpathica]

keyboards-f2/tactile-alps-clones-withou ... 14427.html

[beamingrobot]

Does anyone know what board this it? It's definitely from DT

resources/image/10470

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Interesting. The owner reports a VT-100, but it's not a normal VT-100 keyboard:

photos-f62/random-keyboards-lovingly-ph ... ml#p139144

It may just be a customer-specific VT-100 keyboard.

[Harshmallow]

Does anyone know what board this it? It's definitely from DT

resources/image/10470

Isn't that Snuci's goldkey? Or a similar model perhaps?

[Daniel Beardsmore]

It's not the same as his VT-108 keyboard, no.

[taylorswiftttttt]

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[Chyros]

Looks Alpsish to me. Which would also explain the scratchiness if it was dirty.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

WYSE WYSEpc keyboard, likely green Alps:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=56549.0

[Mattr567]

WYSE WYSEpc keyboard, likely green Alps:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=56549.0

Yep that looks to be right. Switches likely need some cleaning

[taylorswiftttttt]

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[Mattr567]

This is weird:

https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/sys/6051818437.html

[taylorswiftttttt]

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[Darkshado]

Looking at the photos: a set of PC clones completely enclosed within a keyboard case; first generation Pentium or clones, judging by the 586 moniker.

All of this running some sort of proprietary software.

Oh wow! That website (alternatively: Wayback Machine link) looks like it's stuck in the mid-nineties!

Ok. Sure, there might be a viable business to be had supporting this thing, but:

• An old hardware fleet, no matter how reliable, will need parts and replacements. Could the software run on a current gen machine built using COTS parts?
• Speaking of software, what's that source code like to work with?

[Harshmallow]

This is weird:

https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/sys/6051818437.html

*Buys business, pulls keycap from one of the boards - finds out it's a rubber dome. Shoots self in face.*

[Wodan]

Looks like they were into these Terminal-Data-Entry systems similair to the Nixdorf 8850 system with the BA80 terminals.

They used to have Mainframe/Terminal systems worth tens of thousands of bucks just for highly optimized multi-user data entry!

[maxis123]

hi everyone, i'm new here !

bought this one today, it should arrive in next few days.

Wondering if anyone knows anything about it.. what switches are those mx knockoffs or leigt ones ? maybe some nice ps2 nkro ? hmhm



never seen case like this



apparently there is 'tipro' writing on switch case

[Harshmallow]

That is odd...Looks exactly like a Monterey K103/104 case, but doesn't have any of the switches they are known to have. Looks like a hirose cherry switch almost, but the switch definitely has Tipro lettering? Can you get a clear picture of the switch and labels?

[maxis123]

indeed looks like Monterey case O_o, looks like it says 'tipro' to me, not sure

asked seller to send me some if he still has keyboard at his place, i'll take some when it arrives

[y11971alex]

That looks like a Model M to me.

[scottc]

I think those are the Tipro MX clones. Don't know much about them though...

[maxis123]

seems impossible to find anything about them on internet too
found only this picture on internet, it's actually only thing I managed to find about tipro switch or tipro casing, how does this look to you guys ?

[scottc]

There's a thread about them here on DT: keyboards-f2/tipro-t141a-early-tipro-bo ... o%20switch

[maxis123]

just read it, thanks !

nice to know little bit about history .. but not a word about actual switches there. I guess we will just have to find out how good clones are they

[DankMatter]

Hello, i found something that has cought my eye in the local Craigslist type of website. Looks very old to me, and from the missing key i can assume it could be a buckling spring? Any info would be appreciated. Sorry for the bad quality photos, unfortunately, they are the only ones provided by the seller.

[taylorswiftttttt]

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[emdude]

Hello, i found something that has cought my eye in the local Craigslist type of website. Looks very old to me, and from the missing key i can assume it could be a buckling spring? Any info would be appreciated. Sorry for the bad quality photos, unfortunately, they are the only ones provided by the seller.

That keyboard appears to use Key Tronic Foam and Foil switches.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Have you ever seen a buckling spring? That's definitely not buckling spring. Looks similar to futaba clicky

You two are a right pair.

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[rsbseb]

The pad in the upper left corner looks like a joystick mount. Interesting board, It would be a fun one to dismember and document even if it's full of rotten foam. I'm guessing it may have been part of a security system.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

There are photos somewhere of one with that pad removed, and Alps SKE* integrated dome switches in the four positions. It's not an analogue pad!

[rsbseb]

Hello everyone,

Someone took this picture for me in a local thrift store. I think most of them are boring rubber domes, but I wonder about the second one from the bottom (sorry I don't have a better picture). It seems to have two sets of five function keys and the spacebar is unusually large with only one modifier. Also look at the arrow keys that are placed one row from the bottom. I reminds me of an Amiga keyboard, but I know it isn't...

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That Compaq board up top is a great board. Very well built for a rubber dome keyboard. I've had a few of them and they are pretty decent boards overall. I'd buy the whole box just for that one myself as I've destroyed most of the ones I had "experimenting".