Omron F300-K

[Chyros]

I'm sure most people Omron made keyboard switches, but did you know they had their own keyboards too? Apparently so:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Omron-F300-K- ... SwIgNXs2Vy

Not a great find as it's $400, even though it's NOS, but does anyone know more about this keyboard?

[seebart]

I did not know that and I bet almost no one did. Not even Sandy has one. At least now we know they exist and can keep an eye out for them. Would not suprise me if they were never sold outside Asia.

A better pic but the same crazy pricetag:

http://www.radwell.de/en-GB/Buy/OMRON/F ... irect=true

Slightly cheaper but still too much:

https://besturingen.com/contents/en-uk/ ... lc_02.html

[Chyros]

The third pic suddenly made me realise it looks vaguely like an FKB-4700. It has LED cutouts similar to those of Peerless boards, too. But the board seems somewhat old for Peerless, and I don't know why Omron would hire Fujitsu to make these for them considering they made their own switches in the same market Oo .

[seebart]

Hmm yeah the shape of the case looks a little like a FKB-4700. Strange. The seller in that auction you linked titled it "Omron F300-K Keyboard for F300-L100". F300-L100 seems to have been (or still is) some kind of industrial automation system which the Omron F300-K keyboard was a part of. And all those keyboards in all three links have asian symbols. The keyboard being for such a system it will either have no controller itself or speak some proprietary protocol not to be converted.