I need help identifying a keyboard!

[Metraplex]

Recently, my friend has been downsizing, and he has been giving away quite a few keyboards, he has given me one of these, an old fujitsu keyboard. I do not have my phone with me to show a picture I took, but I have a picture from deskthority.

[Metraplex]

Here is the picture from DT, it looks the same as this, same colors and wire.

[kbdfr]

Simple image search:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/triplehaa ... 408828231/

[Go-Kart]

Great looking board.

[orihalcon]

Great looking board.

Agreed! I never understood why split spacebars and "thumb shifts" never really took off in other markets outside of Japan. Canon Cat had something similar, but that's one of the few I've seen outside of Japan at least for vintage/non ergo boards with split hands.

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[Go-Kart]

Likely out of necessity. The Japanese language benefits from such a feature more so than English. Doesn't mean we can't be salty about it though!

It was great when I Hasu'd a HHKB JP. Though, I actually struggled to find uses for half of those extra keys when I had it

[Muirium]

I bet they didn't take off because they were too different. The same reason we still use QWERTY like it's 1874, right down to the awkward stagger.

Thumb keys scream out for attention, precisely because of where they're placed: front and centre. Intimidating to standard-issue humans! "Can't I just have the regular version?"

The Canon Cat is a fascinating computer, by the way. I recommend watching a demo video if you've not seen on in action. It's a whole other concept for graphical computing that's nothing like the Mac, which influenced everything in our timeline.

Made at Canon by Jef Raskin, who started the Macintosh project at Apple before getting kicked out by Steve Jobs. So he developed this. And it flopped. Many of his ideas, however, are superb.

Oh, and if you're keen on the keyboard: here's Snuci's picture thread.