deskthority

Hello,

I found an offer for a beautiful keyboard today that apparently belongs to a Sunsparcstation. There is no additional info on the board. Anyone know what this is and has more info ?


https://imgur.com/09UG1Dm

Whoa! No clue, any chance you can pull a keycap and have a look at the switch?

I want that so badly haha but Its not mine, I hope the dude will send me a pic of it.

He is pretty old and is actually still running the entire setup until this day. Check this out https://imgur.com/HuETyKp

Berthold AG was a German company that made typesetting systems. I would think that is what the keyboard is for. The company was defunct in 1993.
The SPARCstation 5 (in the picture) was introduced in 1994 but must have supported older keyboards.
Berthold Types, which owned the typefaces was alive afterwards and the use the logo as is on the keyboard.

There is a picture of another keyboard on Wikipedia, which has some similarities in the layout.

In case this has Cherry MX switches, what would be a fair price?

It has the beautiful keycaps. Love it. Did you ever take some photo of the switch and the bottom label? especially space bar , some big keycaps(2x 1.5x). They should have something special switch.

It should be this board viewtopic.php?p=456591

Keybug wrote: 08 Dec 2019, 01:28 Another 'Berthold' (photo) typesetting keyboard. It has MX blacks with mono-profile spherical double-shots and was made to be used with Sun Sparc stations.