deskthority

could someone kind and with good spirits lol, elaborate on the switch relation of say, datahand, stackpole, and the like?

i need to complete the missing fields. back to the drawing board.

i missed an n

What kind of homework assignment is this?

And why didn't they teach keyboards at my school? ;-)

the article Keyboard patents

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:And why didn't they teach keyboards at my school?

hehe. it's funny though. nay. ironic.

im decades younger than most established members of this community. lol. but i could type forever in this thing

On that? That's a horrible keyboard. That's the sort of cheap rubbish that left me wondering year after year why all keyboards sucked …

Isn't there an alps version of this?

On that? That's a horrible keyboard. That's the sort of cheap rubbish that left me wondering year after year why all keyboards sucked …

for some unknown reason i could type forever in it.

not so much in this thing. maybe i'm more delicate as years have passed lol

Icarium wrote:Isn't there an alps version of this?

am almost sure it was the alps version

No, there's a Mitsumi version (pictured) and what looks to be an SMK version, which is essentially identical from the outside. SMK version in the middle: http://imgur.com/a/rVE55#20 (saying SMK as the caps lock switch is SMK, but mix-and-match happens)

[wiki]Apple M0116[/wiki] is an Apple Alps keyboard, but I couldn't say for certain what you had.

My Mitsumi one is a horrible spongey dome board. Awful thing.

Oh dear, this topic is completely derailed :)

im wondering if the key caps on both versions (smk and alps) are the same.

and then a side by side view of both key caps (model m and apple) wouldn't hurt either. perhaps the caps are to be blamed for my refusal to use model m.

The SMK one appears to use Alps-compatible keycaps. IBM caps differ in shape significantly from Apple's, though.