deskthority

From an ebay auction:



Does anyone know these?

I don't know anything about the keyboard, no name or article number was given.

The photo is not that good, but it looks kinda like the ALPS vintage tee mount switch. Like the Apple M0110 but in a different colour. That being said, I have never seen this keyboard, and am giving my best guess.

That's one unique looking keyboard. Can you give a link to the auction?

Game over anyway:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/151020500330
Halvar, did you buy it?

I'm happy it hadn't Cherry switches, otherwise I would have been really tempted to buy it.
Look at this other photo with the beautiful DT keycap

Not sure of the switch, but the key caps and the stabilizers look like vintage Marquardt.

Thanks for all your help!

I bought it, don't really know why. I like the caps and their very nice & strange graphical captions, like a "lol" key and both an "xxx" and "xxx" key, and all kinds of arrows ... And I was the only bidder ...

What I'm going to do with it depends on how the switches feel I guess ...

I don't believe it is the Alps T-switch, because I don't see its "T", but I'll have a closer look when I have it.

@HaaTa: that's interesting, why do you think so? I have never seen an older Marquardt board than the ergo, and a quick Google search doesn't turn up anything either. Can I find pictures of older Marquardt boards anywhere?

Edit: typo

The switches are not the same, but there are many similarities in the keyboards.


https://plus.google.com/photos/11384566 ... banner=pwa

Definitely, font and cap form look very similar. Thanks for posting!

I've got the board now. Thanks again, HaaTa! I'd have never found out without your posting, but after some googling it's definitely also a keyboard from an Olympia typewriter.

I don't know the exact model, but the "Olympia Standard 200" uses the same keyboard with several keys missing:
http://www.quoka.de/gewerbe-business/bu ... d-200.html

The switch is different from what HaaTa posted, but probably compatible in respect to keycaps. These are linear though and feel pretty much like a stiffer MX black. Made by Marquardt: You thought clickclacks are keycaps? THIS is a keycap: A small slit for a big keycap: So unfortunately, this was probably bound to happen: Nice legends: The board itself has no controller, the connector just exposes the plain keyboard matrix (with diodes) and the caps lock LED. With a teensy I could probably get it to to work with a little effort, but I'm not sure yet if its worth it given the layout and the dull switches. And I'd need a casing, too.

Marquardt is starting to make more sense. It always seemed odd that they would spontaneously decide to manufacture a switch!

Also, the first picture makes more sense now — I thought it showed the keycap mount (making it different from vintage Marquardt, and more like a typical Hall effect mount) but now I can see that it's just the broken slider :)

Yep, the seller dvde (93,5%) could have mentioned it in the description ... Or I could have been more wary ...

Anyway, a new switch I haven't seen anywhere before ... And a few decorative keycaps.

And for those reading. I highly recommend the Marquardt switch I posted, it's the most similar feel to an IBM Beam Spring and has a very loud click.
Unfortunately, I haven't really seen too many of them around...