Identify the Keyboard

[bembotron]

Good afternoon

Im from Spain, im a follower of your pages , and this is my first post.


I would like to know if this keyboard is a clone of model M, with buckinlg spring etc..

Thanks for letting me join.

[Techno Trousers]

I don't think so. Can you carefully pop off a key cap and post a picture of what's underneath?

[seebart]

Looks like this:

keyboards-f2/identify-this-keyboard-thr ... 5-990.html

Hello, i finaly got the keyboard i posted here previously.(the brand is ADI Corp)


A member told me before this switch is a magnetic valve switch, i have a more clear photo now...

It's a linear switch with a high actuation force compared with my cherry mx blues and i could say its also louder.
I kinda like the feel of this one except for the fact that when i press the keys on the edge instead of the center its a lot less smooth. Its an old keyboard that seems to have gone through heavy use and was quite dirty when i got it. Could it be that it needs some kind of lubrication? Or is this just a problem of this type of switch? I would be realy happy if i could fix this problem!

[bembotron]

I´ll send it later on, I´m about to buy it..but I´´m not pretty sure...
Keep on reading. Thanks.

[Harshmallow]

This is the switch, as per what Daniel Beardsmore replied to that one you mention Seebart:

wiki/USw_EXBB01

Edit - We don't appear to have a name for this switch yet though, this is just in the unidentified switches category in the Wiki.

[seebart]

It's interesting, but it's definitely not buckling spring.

[Findecanor]

Shouldn't this have been posted in the IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread instead of creating a new one?

Anyway, it is easy to see that this is not an IBM buckling spring by it not having as curved a case as IBM's. IBMs keyboards also did not yellow. There are a few rebranded IBM Model M but they are a bit rare, but identifiable by the build being the same.

If you saw this on eBay listed as "IBM BUCKLING SPRING" or similar then ... well, don't trust everything people write in descriptions on eBay. It can be incorrect not just for keyword-spamming though, some sellers are just ignorant. Others will write "IBM" because the box carried the text "IBM PC-compatible", which was common for a long time.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

That might be the first time one has ever been found with an actual ADI label and model number.

The address on that label does match that of the address of the monitor manufacturer ADI, which is good to get fully confirmed:

http://web.archive.org/web/199704281022 ... anches.htm

[bembotron]

Looks like this:

keyboards-f2/identify-this-keyboard-thr ... 5-990.html

Hello, i finaly got the keyboard i posted here previously.(the brand is ADI Corp)


A member told me before this switch is a magnetic valve switch, i have a more clear photo now...

It's a linear switch with a high actuation force compared with my cherry mx blues and i could say its also louder.
I kinda like the feel of this one except for the fact that when i press the keys on the edge instead of the center its a lot less smooth. Its an old keyboard that seems to have gone through heavy use and was quite dirty when i got it. Could it be that it needs some kind of lubrication? Or is this just a problem of this type of switch? I would be realy happy if i could fix this problem!

You rule man, is that Switch...I don´t like very nosiy keyboard so I going to pass .

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Where is it on sale and for how much?

[bembotron]

Where is it on sale and for how much?

Its in Spain 15 euros

[Daniel Beardsmore]

I see … but if someone wanted to buy it, where would they find it?

[Scottex]

It's selling on an app called Wallapop.
It's anounced as: "Teclado mecànico adi corp."
If you can't find it or you can't use the app, or if the seller does not want to send it outside of Spain I could help as a proxy

[bembotron]

Exactly Scottex is right.

Sorry for the delay in answering