deskthority

A friend of mine send this photo to me. He is not familiar with a mechanical or buckling spring keyboard. He just saw this on a store few miles away. He forgot to check the back for the brand/model.

Can you identify this keyboard on its appearance?

Looks like a Monterey K104 to me. Can come with white Alps, blue Alps or Montereys. All good switches. The latter switch even got its moniker from this board.

Looks like a Monterey K208

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Monterey_K208

Nothing great.

Sigh. Its almost 3 years since Im looking for a BS keyboard.

Thanks for the info guys.

That is a K208. Alps-compatible keycaps, sliders over rubber dome.

I have a later version that has Windows keys.
The stabilisers are interesting on that one though, because they are like mid-way between Alps stabilisers and Costar stabilisers.

The caps look 1/2 decent if alps compatible , may be worth it for when you find the loverly blue alps board but with the shiny caps .

I don't think that keyboard isn't great to type.
I brought this semi-mechanical keyboard(same as this keyboard with "Monterey dome with slider") when I have the mechanical keyboard before.
That "switch" is great to play for the music game, maybe not better than Cherry MX blue. But I play it more than the cherry MX blue on music game.

Myk!, please put your country of residence in your profile.

This keyboard is very identical to one im trying to find that i used to have. That grid thing on right was on the left. Still trying to find it, it might have beem clicky space invaders which i hope ill find out soon.

maxrunner wrote: This keyboard is very identical to one im trying to find that i used to have. That grid thing on right was on the left. Still trying to find it, it might have beem clicky space invaders which i hope ill find out soon.

Sorry for this, I did many research about NMB Hi-tek and never seen this layout or this kind of keyboard have the space invaders.
Hope you can break my mine.

Is there any way to the track keyboards by these type of characteristics? Grid in this case?

Yes.
1. check the back of label which the FCCID was made by NMB, it always work: AQ659ZAT series, AQ659ZMT-101 series, MODEL RT-101+ series, MODEL RT-101+INTEL series, NMB PC122-XT series, RT-8250 series, RT-102 series
2. If no label, check two different color of small circle labels(one is "FUNC TEST 2", another one is "IST "or "FINAL") on back case
3. specific models:
PHILIPS P2812 series, TeleVideo keyboard, TAVA PC keyboard, some of Commodore 84key keyboard, Amiga 500, Commodore Amiga 2000, ADDS 1010, Kroy 190 keyboard, AT&T(for DEC)keyboard, NCR Model 4950 keyboard, Symbolics 365407 keyboard, NCD N-97 keyboard, PN：3515274 keyboard series, etc.

terrycherry wrote: Yes.
1. check the back of label which the FCCID was made by NMB, it always work: AQ659ZAT series, AQ659ZMT-101 series, MODEL RT-101+ series, MODEL RT-101+INTEL series, NMB PC122-XT series, RT-8250 series, RT-102 series
2. If no label, check two different color of small circle labels(one is "FUNC TEST 2", another one is "IST "or "FINAL") on back case
3. specific models:
PHILIPS P2812 series, TeleVideo keyboard, TAVA PC keyboard, some of Commodore 84key keyboard, Amiga 500, Commodore Amiga 2000, ADDS 1010, Kroy 190 keyboard, AT&T(for DEC)keyboard, NCR Model 4950 keyboard, Symbolics 365407 keyboard, NCD N-97 keyboard, PN：3515274 keyboard series, etc.

I don't know if it is something totally coincidental but all my NMB boards (mostly ISO and 122 key ISO) were made in Thailand, I guess most of the NMB production was placed there.