I was at work on Friday when The boss walked in with a cart full of stuff, a Desktop CNC milling machine and a stack of keyboards.
He surprised me with a gift of the keyboards.
Most of the keyboards were unremarkable but there was a Fujitsu FKB4700-102 with RGB colored ctrl/shift/alt keys.
I took it home and cleaned it up, it was surprisingly clean with only dust under the keycaps.
Apparently these use 'peerless' switches consisting of a coil spring loaded key over a rubber dome .
The keycaps appear to be dye sublimated ABS, stemless and attach directly to the white switch housing.
Removing the housing top reveals a coil spring and on some, an integrated LED.
The keys present a definite springiness to them with 14 nickels worth of pressure to collapse the spring.
The space bar has a metallic spring loaded stabilizer and the other long keys have a piston and cylinder arrangement.
There is a pencil shelf across the top, and a recess rectangle on the right for a logo panel. There is no decal present in that area.
There are 101 keys, unstepped Caps lock, no Win key or Menu key and the main ENTER key is horizontal.
Caps lock, Scroll lock and Num lock each have a built in green LED.
Print Screen and Pause are side printed with SysRq and Break respectively.
The keyboard is rated at 5V and 250 mA, has a permanently attached coiled cable with a 5-pin DIN connector.
She is an older keyboard, with a yellow/golden sheen on the housing, some slight shine on the SPACE bar but the keys appear to be uniform in pressure and without damage.
What a pleasant surprise.
