BTC-5050

[Retro-Kazek]

Hello,

i come from germany ( that's why the bad english on my part ! )
and have a question about this keyboard:

Have anyone a BTC-5050 keyboard ( it looks like the BTC 5060 on this sites ! )
or some technical details about it ?

I´ve bought one 2 weeks ago on ebay.de (germany) for 6,- Euro incl. shipping-costs.
But in google there seems to be no information about it...

Is this a mechanical keyboard ?
I will take it to a local computer-dealer ( some years ago a Commodore-Amiga dealer, too )
to remove the keyboard keys, because my technical skills are very small.
To take a look under the caps, .
If anyone is interested, i can create photos !

Retro-Kazek

[codemonkeymike]

It is probably a foam and foil board, they feel fine if they are in good condition but rarely are in good condition. wiki/Foam_and_foil . They are what some would call a "mechanical keyboard" but more specifically it is an "electro-capacitive keyboard" wiki/Keystroke_sensing#Capacitive . The positives of this is that they generally had quite nice keycaps on these boards and sometimes are Cherry MX compatible. The negative of this is that as is the chance you will "want"/"have the ability to" hook this up to a modern system is very low.

Also sometimes deskthority's forum search feature is better then a google search. We have an "interesting finds" thread that is 600+ pages long and almost every keyboard of interest that has sold at a reasonable cost has been mentioned there, such as the BTC-5050 ( other-external-f66/great-interesting-fi ... 50#p287318 )

[Slom]

Hallo Retro-Kazek

Googling BTC really is no fun right now Couldn't they choose a less ambiguous brand name for their keyboards ...