IDENTIFY THE KEYBOARD thread

[Findecanor]

Good evening everyone!
Would anyone be so kind as to enlighten me on what keyboards these are and what switches they might have?

The bottom keyboard is a Sun Type 4. I think it has Key Tronic foam-and-foil switches.
Notice the left key cluster, Compose key, Control key position and Meta ⋄ keys.

(There are a couple of mentions in the Wiki, but no actual article)

[Lekrafter]

Is this, what I think it is!?

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[Muirium]

Is this, what I think it is!?

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If you think IBM AT, then no. AT layout, yes. But no.

[imdatperson]

Is this, what I think it is!?

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Kinda looks like a Futaba MA board with those caps. Diggin the look of it!

[Chyros]

Is this, what I think it is!?

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Pretty sure it's a Datacomp with Futaba MA switches. I think I covered that exact model in a video.

[Lekrafter]

Oh man! After a little digging around that's what I had figured out but at first I though it was a Monterey K2AX with SKCM blues...

[ppCircle]

Oh man! After a little digging around that's what I had figured out but at first I though it was a Monterey K2AX with SKCM blues...

You can define that by looking at keycaps. > stepped =alps

[Lekrafter]

Is this, what I think it is!?

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Pretty sure it's a Datacomp with Futaba MA switches. I think I covered that exact model in a video.

Futaba MA one of the worst souding switches ever eh?

[Robauke]

@ntv242 @kbdfr thanks for the insights!
buying fitting keysets seems to be a challenging topic in itself, any place here in the forum to get to know that road better?

[Lekrafter]

Anybody know what this is?

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Thanks!

[Polecat]

Compaq Enhanced Keyboard. Wiki says both foam and foil and rubber dome versions exist.

[Lekrafter]

And what would this one be?

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[wadeak78]

wiki/Hewlett_Packard_2623A

[funkmon]

I need some right help on this one. It's a square badged Model M terminal from the early years with a metal 240 degree DIN plug, non removable, and stubby feet. Which one is it? I just bought it on ebay for cheap as hell but I don't know what I'm getting into here.

[John Doe]

It's like 1386303/1386304 terminal 102-keys layout M , but with an metal plug? interested me...

[funkmon]

It's like 1386303/1386304 terminal 102-keys layout M , but with an metal plug? interested me...

Or the 670, yeah, but as far as I can tell, they don't have metal plugs.

According to the wiki, could be the 680, or a 1390305, maybe, but the image I can see of the 1390305 has more plastic on the DIN plug.

[John Doe]

It's like 1386303/1386304 terminal 102-keys layout M , but with an metal plug? interested me...

Or the 670, yeah, but as far as I can tell, they don't have metal plugs.

According to the wiki, could be the 680, or a 1390305, maybe, but the image I can see of the 1390305 has more plastic on the DIN plug.

Yeah, quite surely it's 1390305 now.

found this after google:https://www.recycledgoods.com/ibm-13903 ... -keyboard/, details matched.

[Hausen]

Does someone know this keyboard ? And the switches that are being used? That keyboard has a turbo button which is strange mhm..

[kelvinhall05]

Does someone know this keyboard ? And the switches that are being used? That keyboard has a turbo button which is strange mhm..

Interesting board. No idea what it is but I can almost guarantee it has rubber domes.

[Findecanor]

The shape of the keyboard case reminds me of a rubber dome keyboard that was super-common back in the second half of the '90s... but that style would date it from 1999 to only a couple years forward (copying the Tangerine iMac from '99).
Unikey/Chicony used that arrangement of 1.5u modifiers on the bottom row.

If you can see right through it, you can see that it has no plate and no PCB ...

A Turbo key modifies how fast the keys repeat when held down.

[AJM]

This button is connected to the long weird feet under the keyboard. On my keyboard one of the feet wiggles, when I press it. Either something is stuck or I don't press hard enough. I'll find out, when I have the time to open and clean it.

An ingenious mechanism to lower the feet without turning over the keyboard?! Wow...

It's quite a nifty construction. Here's a video of the mechanics and 2 pictures of my cleaned keyboard:

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[fohat]

Does someone know this keyboard ? And the switches that are being used?

I think that I had a buckling spring knock-off that looked like that many years ago.

It was dramatically inferior to an IBM and caps and parts were not interchangeable..

[Lekrafter]

What would this one be?

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[mike52787]

Silitek dome with slider

[Lekrafter]

And what about this one?

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[RiverDax]

This is all the info I have

[PlacaFromHell]

This is all the info I have

Philips P2000C, but no idea about the switches.

[RiverDax]

Thanks, someone also help with identifying

https://www.old-computers.com/museum/co ... st=1&c=846

[HC514]

Looks like it's related to this one.

[textadventurer]

Hi folks, my first post here. Picked up this keyboard. It has no logo or stickers, and I don't know what it is. It has some German keys on it (ß), and a key saying "EXTRA TEKEN" which is Dutch. The connector is of a phone cord type.

Anybody knows what this is?