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Offline aegrotatio

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What's the keyboard layout in The Matrix?
« on: Sun, 19 December 2010, 22:17:05 »
What's the keyboard layout in The Matrix?  The original, first film has these keyboards that look bizarre to me.  Are they in a known layout, like Japanese, or are they just totally random craziness built like that for the movie?
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Offline TexasFlood

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What's the keyboard layout in The Matrix?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 19 December 2010, 22:45:29 »
Quote from: aegrotatio;265969
What's the keyboard layout in The Matrix?  The original, first film has these keyboards that look bizarre to me.  Are they in a known layout, like Japanese, or are they just totally random craziness built like that for the movie?

Looks like a GeekHack Space Saver!  :wink:.


But seriously.  I'm not sure about other keyboards in the movie, but did read a bit of trivia about the very first keyboard shown. Supposedly in the beginning Neo is using a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro. When Trinity contacts him. Neo thinks it's a glitch or something, so he hits escape, then tries control x.  The key next to the control key is completely and mysteriously white because it's a Microsoft keyboard, complete with the Windows key. They forgot to get a plain, generic keyboard when making the movie, so they just covered it with tape or painted over it. Or at least that's what I read.
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Offline Lanx

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What's the keyboard layout in The Matrix?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 19 December 2010, 23:11:12 »
maybe they got the natural pro cuz it was basically what everyone was kinda using in 99 i mean it was the ergonomic option, also the keyboards that the opertor (the ppl w/ headsets) use i think it was close to a siig or basically the formfactor of a ml4100 one on top of another.
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