Key Tronic ... Made by Alps

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hellothere

02 Jul 2022, 21:42

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ebay ad. Green Alps.

Anyone hear of any other Key Tronic Alps keyboards?

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jsheradin

02 Jul 2022, 21:58

Was Keytronic involved with the Alps board? I'm pretty sure every manufacturer of that era were making 5150/60 clones that were nearly identical externally.

Ex. Space Invader version:
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Polecat

02 Jul 2022, 22:02

hellothere wrote:
02 Jul 2022, 21:42
Our Wiki.
Random Internet Link.
ebay ad. Green Alps.

Anyone hear of any other Key Tronic Alps keyboards?
I don't see the first two as having Alps switches, and I don't think the third one was made by Keytronics. The KB-5150 model number was probably used because the model number of the original IBM PC was 5150, not because Keytronics thought of it or had a trademark registered for that number.

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hellothere

02 Jul 2022, 22:16

jsheradin wrote:
02 Jul 2022, 21:58
Was Keytronic involved with the Alps board? I'm pretty sure every manufacturer of that era were making 5150/60 clones that were nearly identical externally.
Cool.

You're both correct that the KB in the ebay ad doesn't specifically say "Key Tronic" on it, but the Key Tronic one did have a black metal bottom case and that fancy label in the top left corner.

I must remember to expand my ebay searches to include "5150."

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