Unitek K-158-1 (NIB)

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ramnes
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28 Mar 2015, 16:21

Just received this NIB Unitek K-158-1. Since I didn't find any photo of it online, I'm posting mines. ;)

Overall the board is great. It feels a bit cheap, but I find the physical layout pretty awesome!

Not a big fan of the Swiss layout itself, but I really like key places and sizes, except for the big-ass Enter.

I don't know when the keyboard was made, but it looks very futurist for a AT/XT compatible board.

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User's manual:

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Imgur album here: http://imgur.com/a/6oZCM

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Redmaus
Gotta start somewhere

28 Mar 2015, 23:07

Ooh, nice looking ctrl. I like the stepped look. Although I like to have my caps lock remain there. Made by DAH YANG industry. I can't stand ginormous enters though.

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beltet

28 Mar 2015, 23:58

nice find!

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Daniel

29 Mar 2015, 12:14

Really nice find. I think I'd be very comfortable typing with US international layout on this as the Alt-Gr key is further on the left side compared to standard ISO or ANSI.

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eldorange

30 Mar 2015, 14:21

Is this keyboard related to this company?

http://www.unitek-products.com/en/company_aboutus.php

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seebart
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30 Mar 2015, 14:37

great find! Vintage blues.Nice. Swiss international layout?

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ramnes
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30 Mar 2015, 14:45

eldorange wrote: Is this keyboard related to this company?

http://www.unitek-products.com/en/company_aboutus.php
No idea!
seebart wrote: great find! Vintage blues.Nice. Swiss international layout?
Just swiss layout. What is swiss "international" layout?

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seebart
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30 Mar 2015, 15:31

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the swiss have always been very "international". :lol: Swiss French. Swiss German.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globaliz ... index.html

zts

13 Apr 2015, 02:58

That's one nice KB. I have Unitek K-258. It seems Unitek was a bit ahead of its time by introducing some of TKL-size KBs. They also used a variety of caps mounts. Anyways, a nice find!

terrycherry

23 Feb 2016, 14:03

Thanks to share this NIB with manual!
This keyboard having the Cherry MX Dark Blue variant. Please take one modern MX Blue near to this keyboard switch.
If the switch looks darker and feeling lots of difference to the modern one, you got the rare variant!

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ramnes
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28 Feb 2016, 01:19

I don't have the keyboard anymore, but I remember that it definitely looked and felt like a normal blue.

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dcopellino

03 May 2021, 09:53

Unfortunately, the seller doesn't seem open to internationalisation.... As my old looooong English although.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284279115018

ntv242ver2

05 May 2021, 10:38

dcopellino wrote:
03 May 2021, 09:53
Unfortunately, the seller doesn't seem open to internationalisation.... As my old looooong English although.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284279115018
this definitely has different caps. But same font. I wonder if unitek changed the production or the supplier at some point.

Rayndalf

05 May 2021, 11:50

dcopellino wrote:
03 May 2021, 09:53
Unfortunately, the seller doesn't seem open to internationalisation.... As my old looooong English although.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284279115018
Those are padprinted, the legends are the same as every K151L I've seen.

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