orphaned Compaq keyboard

7bit · 22 Nov 2012, 15:16

Today I found this on my doorstep.
Does anybody know where this keyboard is from?

It seems to be a rubberdome.

Ascaii · 22 Nov 2012, 17:56

Interesting, is this one of those that have an IBM compatible SDL cable?

7bit · 22 Nov 2012, 18:07

The case but the cable is fixed.

t!ng · 22 Nov 2012, 20:53

I thought it was rubberdome when I saw it on eBay. Good to know.

Half-Saint · 23 Nov 2012, 10:25

That one's mine. I bought it because I thought I'd be getting an SDL cable. I remember Ascaii said that it had one..

Ascaii you deceiver!

Findecanor · 23 Nov 2012, 10:58

Could it be made by Key Tronic? The case looks familiar and KT is known to have made early keyboards for Compaq. Model number should start with KT.

7bit · 23 Nov 2012, 11:57

Findecanor wrote:Could it be made by Key Tronic? The case looks familiar and KT is known to have made early keyboards for Compaq. Model number should start with KT.

The switches look KeyTronicish somehow. As a rubberdome it is quite OK.

If Half-Saint allows, I will take it apart ...

Half-Saint · 23 Nov 2012, 13:31

If you take it apart it will lose it's virginity!!!

Ascaii · 23 Nov 2012, 17:17

Half-Saint wrote:That one's mine. I bought it because I thought I'd be getting an SDL cable. I remember Ascaii said that it had one..

Ascaii you deceiver!

Sorry, these old compaqs have the sdl: http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8 ... t3862.html

7bit · 23 Nov 2012, 17:56

Looks like KeyTronic to me. But the one I got is different. Also, the case is different.

Half-Saint · 24 Nov 2012, 11:29

Well at least it's pretty

webwit · 29 Nov 2012, 00:22

I once scored this *cough* Cherry on marktplaats.nl.

Not all my finds are gold.

7bit's one looks better.

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Ascaii · 29 Nov 2012, 17:49

webwit wrote:I once scored this *cough* Cherry on marktplaats.nl.

Not all my finds are gold.

7bit's one looks better.

compaq0.jpg

Funny, I scored a Lion electronics board in a cherry box once too.

kbdfr · 29 Nov 2012, 18:10

Ascaii wrote:
webwit wrote:I once scored this *cough* Cherry on marktplaats.nl.

Not all my finds are gold.

7bit's one looks better.

compaq0.jpg
Funny, I scored a Lion electronics board in a cherry box once too.

Funny too, I once bought a Lion keyboard which turned out to be a Cherry OEM: a G81-3224 SAD

Ascaii · 29 Nov 2012, 18:43

kbdfr wrote:
Ascaii wrote:
webwit wrote:I once scored this *cough* Cherry on marktplaats.nl.

Not all my finds are gold.

7bit's one looks better.

compaq0.jpg
Funny, I scored a Lion electronics board in a cherry box once too.
Funny too, I once bought a Lion keyboard which turned out to be a Cherry OEM: a G81-3224 SAD

Was this in Tempelhof?

kbdfr · 29 Nov 2012, 19:23

Ascaii wrote:
kbdfr wrote:
Ascaii wrote:Funny, I scored a Lion electronics board in a cherry box once too.
Funny too, I once bought a Lion keyboard which turned out to be a Cherry OEM: a G81-3224 SAD
Was this in Tempelhof?

No, it came from West-Germany.

Edit: Oh, I see, you thought it could have been the keyboard which belonged in the box. I don't think so, but you can check against the label on the box: G81-3224 SAD /00, production date G02.