Hey guys would like some help identifying what switch this keyboard might have.
Thanks.
What switch?
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- Location: United Kingdom
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That must have been been yanked from a typewriter. I have seen similar keycaps from an AEG typewriter, and those were Cherry MX-compatible.
I think it would be easier to find info if you searched on the model name of the typewriter.
I think it would be easier to find info if you searched on the model name of the typewriter.
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- Location: United Kingdom
- Main keyboard: Modded IBM Model F AT
- Main mouse: Mionix Naos 8200
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Springs
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The keyboard has a ps/2 connector was there any typewriters with detachable keyboards?
- Willy4876
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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I'd say it is more likely a word processor keyboard. I'm guessing that mostly from the arrow keys and some of the legends like recall phrase. That sounds like more of a computer-like function than even some of the later more advanced electric typewriters.
- Willy4876
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Main keyboard: Focus FK-2001 with Alps Doubleshots
- Main mouse: Logitek MX Master 2S
- Favorite switch: Blue Alps
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I'd say it is more likely a word processor keyboard. I'm guessing that mostly from the arrow keys and some of the legends like recall phrase. That sounds like more of a computer-like function than even some of the later more advanced electric typewriters.
This is the closest looking thing that I found from a quick google search. It looks similar to what Fkazim posted but this one has a nav-cluster.
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads ... 78&page=70 (Scroll down a bit)
This lead me to search for Olympia Olytext machines and I found this DT thread. I cannot say for sure that this is going to have the same switches but it would make sense.
viewtopic.php?t=18286
I hope it helps.
This is the closest looking thing that I found from a quick google search. It looks similar to what Fkazim posted but this one has a nav-cluster.
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads ... 78&page=70 (Scroll down a bit)
This lead me to search for Olympia Olytext machines and I found this DT thread. I cannot say for sure that this is going to have the same switches but it would make sense.
viewtopic.php?t=18286
I hope it helps.
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- Location: United Kingdom
- Main keyboard: Modded IBM Model F AT
- Main mouse: Mionix Naos 8200
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Springs
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Yeah that looks very similar to it Thanks.
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Mind that not all 6-pin mini-DIN plugs are PS/2. SGI and Commodore Amiga keyboards also used that connector, and there are yet more interfaces using mini-DIN with other number of pins.
A word processor sounds likely. Some typewriter brands did make word processors.
- cheesy_jones
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Matias Quiet Pro-day/Azio MK Mac USB-night
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Matias Quiet
Time was you couldn't go into a Sears without running across a million of them. They all seemed cheaply built and unreliable next to a real electric typewriter. The world has changed.Findecanor wrote: ↑19 Apr 2020, 01:22A word processor sounds likely. Some typewriter brands did make word processors.