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Just found a weird Apple Extended Keyboard I with a strange model number.

At first, it look like a regular AEKI with Alps SKCM Orange, but when you look at the label at the back, it says M0116C... But the M0116 is a totaly different keyboard.. And it's not a mismatch because it seams legit and the label also says Apple Extended Keyboard...

Anyone know about this model?

Thanks!

My guess is that the 6 is a mistype, as the board has the correct FCCID for the M0115.

The "C" most likely stands for Canadian, based on the additonal legends it has.

Overall, its a neat board!

Crizender wrote: ↑

29 Jun 2022, 20:25

My guess is that the 6 is a mistype, as the board has the correct FCCID for the M0115.

The "C" most likely stands for Canadian, based on the additonal legends it has.

Overall, its a neat board!

Yeah you are probably right... Can't think to another option...
Thanks!

But who the hell just makes a typo in a big-brand keyboard's Model No. and then releases it?
Apple, I thought you were different!

Really weird... cannot think that they just made that type of mistake...

Here's an M0116C. Apple Standard Keyboard. Salmon / pink Alps. First hit when I Googled "m0116c apple keyboard." ebait pictures. It's got the Canadian French layout. Regarding large companies making mistakes with labels, I've seen hundreds of examples, just not in the keyboard world. As always, if it looks like an [insert model name], it IS an [insert model name], regardless of what the label says .

Bjerrk wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2022, 05:46

But who the hell just makes a typo in a big-brand keyboard's Model No. and then releases it?
Apple, I thought you were different!

Apple in the first half of the 90's was a dysfunctional mess producing buggy products. A typo on a product label from the early 90's doesn't particularly surprise me.

Steve Jobs was brought back in 1996 and almost immediately started axeing product teams, execs, managers, and basically anyone whom he decided (usually after about 10 seconds) was a 'bozo' and who wasn't doing amazing work on a project core to Apple's survival.



He was an asshole, but a highly effective asshole.

hellothere wrote: ↑

15 Jul 2022, 06:08

Regarding large companies making mistakes with labels, I've seen hundreds of examples, just not in the keyboard world. As always, if it looks like an [insert model name], it IS an [insert model name], regardless of what the label says .

I have some Blue Alps boards I'd like to sell you.

Bjerrk wrote: ↑

15 Jul 2022, 19:37

hellothere wrote: ↑

15 Jul 2022, 06:08

Regarding large companies making mistakes with labels, I've seen hundreds of examples, just not in the keyboard world. As always, if it looks like an [insert model name], it IS an [insert model name], regardless of what the label says .

I have some Blue Alps boards I'd like to sell you.

Works 4 me.

hellothere wrote: ↑

15 Jul 2022, 06:08

Here's an M0116C. Apple Standard Keyboard. Salmon / pink Alps. First hit when I Googled "m0116c apple keyboard." ebait pictures. It's got the Canadian French layout.

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Regarding large companies making mistakes with labels, I've seen hundreds of examples, just not in the keyboard world. As always, if it looks like an [insert model name], it IS an [insert model name], regardless of what the label says .

That make sens!! Thank you guys! So Apple was really sloppy at that time! ahah