Commodore Amiga 600
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| Branding | Commodore Amiga |
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| Manufacturer | Mitsumi, NMB |
| Keyswitches |
Mitsumi hybrid switch NMB dome with slider |
| Years of production | 1992—1994 |
| Price | n/a (included with system) |
The Commodore Amiga 600 was a home computer, intended as a cost-reduced successor to the Amiga 500+, with only modest hardware improvements.
Layout
The Amiga 600's keyboard has a more compact layout than other Amiga keyboards, by omitting the numeric keypad. The cursor keys and the Help and Del keys have been moved left and the Esc key is 1.25 units wide.
There are variants with Backwards-L and ISO Return keys, but the ISO seems more common. Some examples with ISO Return key have blank keys where the Backwards-L variant have none.
Like the Amiga 1200, the keyboard has a ribbon cable to a controller on the motherboard, thus making external keyboard mods difficult.
The keyboard matrix is the same as other Amiga keyboards except that the numeric keypad has been omitted.
Variants
Most examples are believed to have mostly linear Mitsumi hybrid switches[1] as is common with most Amiga keyboards though at last one sample has been found using what appears to be a variant of NMB dome with slider, this time with the discrete domes not glued to the membrane sheet.[2]
Availability
The original keyboards came integrated into the computer.
Mechanical replacement
- aeberbach has a A600KB project files on Github, under a MIT license.
See also
Other Amiga computers with integrated keyboards:
