Identify this Apple keyboard

[Touch_It]

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The computer it is sitting on is a power Macintosh g3 if that helps. I can maybe get a better pic if required. Trying to figure out what it is and if it's work buying and I'd so what price.

[crunch]

Looks like a AppleDesign keyboard with rubber domes, but could also be Apple Extended keyboard with ALPS switches.

[Touch_It]

Asked the seller for a Pic with a key cap popped so I'll see.

[Findecanor]

That is definitely not an AEK or any other original Apple keyboard with Alps switches. The AEK is curved pretty high in the back and has wide borders to the left and right with the Apple logo on the left border. None of Apple's keyboards with Alps has any stepped Caps Lock like this one has.

I agree that it is most likely to be a AppleDesign Keyboard. In the Wiki you can see that there are a few versions of it, and if you are lucky it could have Alps-compatible keycaps of PBT .. but it does look too yellowed to be that.
All third-party keyboards for the Mac that I have seen have had have 1u Alt/Option keys while Apple's own are 1.25u.

[Touch_It]

Thanks. Seller hasn't responded but sounds like a no brainer pass.

[seebart]

my tipp is also AppleDesign keyboard like this one:

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[Findecanor]

Huh? ... That particular keyboard is an exception to the rules I laid out in my previous post. So there is an AppleDesign keyboard with 1u Alt/Option keys and non-stepped Caps Lock ...

[jacobolus]

Also quite possible this keyboard wasn’t made by Apple. There were several third party vendors making Mac keyboards.

If it is an Apple keyboard, it’s a worthless crappy one. All the nice ones (or even ones with useful parts) had PBT keycaps; the keyboard pictured in the OP is definitely pure ABS.

I’d generally say this isn’t worth following up on. It’s unlikely to be anything you’d want at any price.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Huh? :shock: ... That particular keyboard is an exception to the rules I laid out in my previous post. So there is an AppleDesign keyboard with 1u Alt/Option keys and non-stepped Caps Lock ...

That picture is from Tammy:

http://www.applerescueofdenver.com/prod ... -keyboard/

The different AppleDesign Keyboard variants:

http://www.applerescueofdenver.com/prod ... -key-caps/

[robo]

The PowerMac G3 All-in-ones and the ADB mouse pictured all match with the keyboard, age wise, and it's definitely an AppleDesign model (ie. boring, run-of-the-mill rubberdome from the late 90's).

[Touch_It]

As smarter people than myself have already identified, I confirmed with the seller this was an Apple design keyboard. Also today I realized I had two of them hiding in plain sight in my garage. (Yellowing not included). Thanks for the help.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Are yours either of the two types on the wiki, or do you have one of the other types?

[Touch_It]

I will let you know when I get off work. Won't be for 10ish hours though as I'm just getting ready atm

[Touch_It]

I have one of both. The nmb with sliders and spend feels much better than the alps controller board variant.

[jacobolus]

Their both pretty bad though IMO, but the Alps-mount-compatible one has dye-sublimated keycaps that can be transplanted to other Alps keyboards.

(I’m talking about this type http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/apple ... t7400.html )