deskthority

Posted: **28 Mar 2015, 16:21**

Just received this NIB Unitek K-158-1. Since I didn't find any photo of it online, I'm posting mines.

Overall the board is great. It feels a bit cheap, but I find the physical layout pretty awesome!

Not a big fan of the Swiss layout itself, but I really like key places and sizes, except for the big-ass Enter.

I don't know when the keyboard was made, but it looks very futurist for a AT/XT compatible board.

User's manual:

Imgur album here: http://imgur.com/a/6oZCM

Posted: **28 Mar 2015, 23:07**

Ooh, nice looking ctrl. I like the stepped look. Although I like to have my caps lock remain there. Made by DAH YANG industry. I can't stand ginormous enters though.

Posted: **28 Mar 2015, 23:58**

nice find!

Posted: **29 Mar 2015, 12:14**

Really nice find. I think I'd be very comfortable typing with US international layout on this as the Alt-Gr key is further on the left side compared to standard ISO or ANSI.

Posted: **30 Mar 2015, 14:21**

Is this keyboard related to this company?

http://www.unitek-products.com/en/company_aboutus.php

Posted: **30 Mar 2015, 14:37**

great find! Vintage blues.Nice. Swiss international layout?

Posted: **30 Mar 2015, 14:45**

eldorange wrote: Is this keyboard related to this company?

http://www.unitek-products.com/en/company_aboutus.php

No idea!

seebart wrote: great find! Vintage blues.Nice. Swiss international layout?

Just swiss layout. What is swiss "international" layout?

Posted: **30 Mar 2015, 15:31**

: 800px-KB_Swiss.svg.png (43.87 KiB) Viewed 9682 times

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Swiss.svg

the swiss have always been very "international".

Swiss French. Swiss German.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globaliz ... index.html

Posted: **13 Apr 2015, 02:58**

That's one nice KB. I have Unitek K-258. It seems Unitek was a bit ahead of its time by introducing some of TKL-size KBs. They also used a variety of caps mounts. Anyways, a nice find!

Posted: **23 Feb 2016, 14:03**

Thanks to share this NIB with manual!
This keyboard having the Cherry MX Dark Blue variant. Please take one modern MX Blue near to this keyboard switch.
If the switch looks darker and feeling lots of difference to the modern one, you got the rare variant!

Posted: **28 Feb 2016, 01:19**

I don't have the keyboard anymore, but I remember that it definitely looked and felt like a normal blue.

Posted: **03 May 2021, 09:53**

Unfortunately, the seller doesn't seem open to internationalisation.... As my old looooong English although.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284279115018

Posted: **05 May 2021, 10:38**

dcopellino wrote: 03 May 2021, 09:53 Unfortunately, the seller doesn't seem open to internationalisation.... As my old looooong English although.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284279115018

this definitely has different caps. But same font. I wonder if unitek changed the production or the supplier at some point.

Posted: **05 May 2021, 11:50**

dcopellino wrote: 03 May 2021, 09:53 Unfortunately, the seller doesn't seem open to internationalisation.... As my old looooong English although.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284279115018

Those are padprinted, the legends are the same as every K151L I've seen.

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