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Lekrafter wrote: 15 May 2020, 03:10 Good evening everyone!
Would anyone be so kind as to enlighten me on what keyboards these are and what switches they might have?

The bottom keyboard is a Sun Type 4. I think it has Key Tronic foam-and-foil switches.
Notice the left key cluster, Compose key, Control key position and Meta ⋄ keys.

(There are a couple of mentions in the Wiki, but no actual article)

Is this, what I think it is!?

Lekrafter wrote: 16 May 2020, 07:16 Is this, what I think it is!?

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If you think IBM AT, then no. AT layout, yes. But no.

Lekrafter wrote: 16 May 2020, 07:16 Is this, what I think it is!?

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Kinda looks like a Futaba MA board with those caps. Diggin the look of it!

Lekrafter wrote: 16 May 2020, 07:16 Is this, what I think it is!?

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Pretty sure it's a Datacomp with Futaba MA switches. I think I covered that exact model in a video.

Oh man! After a little digging around that's what I had figured out but at first I though it was a Monterey K2AX with SKCM blues...

Lekrafter wrote: 16 May 2020, 15:15 Oh man! After a little digging around that's what I had figured out but at first I though it was a Monterey K2AX with SKCM blues...

You can define that by looking at keycaps. > stepped =alps

Chyros wrote: 16 May 2020, 12:21

Lekrafter wrote: 16 May 2020, 07:16 Is this, what I think it is!?

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Pretty sure it's a Datacomp with Futaba MA switches. I think I covered that exact model in a video.

Futaba MA one of the worst souding switches ever eh?

@ntv242 @kbdfr thanks for the insights!
buying fitting keysets seems to be a challenging topic in itself, any place here in the forum to get to know that road better?

Anybody know what this is?
Thanks!

Compaq Enhanced Keyboard. Wiki says both foam and foil and rubber dome versions exist.

And what would this one be?

I need some right help on this one. It's a square badged Model M terminal from the early years with a metal 240 degree DIN plug, non removable, and stubby feet. Which one is it? I just bought it on ebay for cheap as hell but I don't know what I'm getting into here.

It's like 1386303/1386304 terminal 102-keys layout M , but with an metal plug? interested me...

John Doe wrote: 20 May 2020, 02:58 It's like 1386303/1386304 terminal 102-keys layout M , but with an metal plug? interested me...

Or the 670, yeah, but as far as I can tell, they don't have metal plugs.

According to the wiki, could be the 680, or a 1390305, maybe, but the image I can see of the 1390305 has more plastic on the DIN plug.

funkmon wrote: 20 May 2020, 03:03

John Doe wrote: 20 May 2020, 02:58 It's like 1386303/1386304 terminal 102-keys layout M , but with an metal plug? interested me...

Or the 670, yeah, but as far as I can tell, they don't have metal plugs.

According to the wiki, could be the 680, or a 1390305, maybe, but the image I can see of the 1390305 has more plastic on the DIN plug.

Yeah, quite surely it's 1390305 now.

found this after google:https://www.recycledgoods.com/ibm-13903 ... -keyboard/, details matched.

Does someone know this keyboard ? And the switches that are being used? That keyboard has a turbo button which is strange mhm..

Hausen wrote: 20 May 2020, 19:22 Does someone know this keyboard ? And the switches that are being used? That keyboard has a turbo button which is strange mhm..

Interesting board. No idea what it is but I can almost guarantee it has rubber domes.

The shape of the keyboard case reminds me of a rubber dome keyboard that was super-common back in the second half of the '90s... but that style would date it from 1999 to only a couple years forward (copying the Tangerine iMac from '99).
Unikey/Chicony used that arrangement of 1.5u modifiers on the bottom row.

If you can see right through it, you can see that it has no plate and no PCB ...

A Turbo key modifies how fast the keys repeat when held down.

Keybug wrote: 27 Mar 2020, 13:49

AJM wrote: 25 Mar 2020, 20:33 This button is connected to the long weird feet under the keyboard. On my keyboard one of the feet wiggles, when I press it. Either something is stuck or I don't press hard enough. I'll find out, when I have the time to open and clean it.

An ingenious mechanism to lower the feet without turning over the keyboard?! Wow...

It's quite a nifty construction. Here's a video of the mechanics and 2 pictures of my cleaned keyboard:

Hausen wrote: 20 May 2020, 19:22
Does someone know this keyboard ? And the switches that are being used?

I think that I had a buckling spring knock-off that looked like that many years ago.

It was dramatically inferior to an IBM and caps and parts were not interchangeable..

What would this one be?

Silitek dome with slider

And what about this one?

This is all the info I have

RiverDax wrote: 24 May 2020, 00:22

This is all the info I have

Philips P2000C, but no idea about the switches.

Thanks, someone also help with identifying

https://www.old-computers.com/museum/co ... st=1&c=846

RiverDax wrote: 24 May 2020, 00:22

Looks like it's related to this one.

Hi folks, my first post here. Picked up this keyboard. It has no logo or stickers, and I don't know what it is. It has some German keys on it (ß), and a key saying "EXTRA TEKEN" which is Dutch. The connector is of a phone cord type.

Anybody knows what this is?