KPT clone (yellow and green) switch keyboard. (Unbranded)
Posted: 07 Nov 2017, 12:17
I found this keyboard randomly on eBay, marked as "AT Russian keyboard, working" or some such. I got it because of the interesting switches, which you can see below in this album.
https://imgur.com/a/f1rLF
Interesting for sure. There's a variety of about 4 different versions of the yellow switch on it (OB3, OB5, OB7, and OB1)
And the green switches all appear to be OB3 for the most part.
It has an AT/XT switch as well.
Oddly the ~ and 1 keys don't work despite having no visible damage, yet the ctrl on the left has a damaged switch housing yet works.
Currently cleaning the keyboard.
the switches are all clicky, all the yellow ones have no noticeable differences from each other when typing and the green ones are clicky as well. The greens seem similar to the yellows but I'm not sure if they have different weighting or not. Will check when I can.
*also I don't know if its Russian or Bulgarian but it came from Kiev so probably could be either one*
https://imgur.com/a/f1rLF
Interesting for sure. There's a variety of about 4 different versions of the yellow switch on it (OB3, OB5, OB7, and OB1)
And the green switches all appear to be OB3 for the most part.
It has an AT/XT switch as well.
Oddly the ~ and 1 keys don't work despite having no visible damage, yet the ctrl on the left has a damaged switch housing yet works.
Currently cleaning the keyboard.
the switches are all clicky, all the yellow ones have no noticeable differences from each other when typing and the green ones are clicky as well. The greens seem similar to the yellows but I'm not sure if they have different weighting or not. Will check when I can.
*also I don't know if its Russian or Bulgarian but it came from Kiev so probably could be either one*