Can anyone positively identify this keyboard?

[Stupidface]

This photograph has been bandied about a fair bit:



One thing I have not seen, however, is any mention of the specific make and model of keyboard that was performing triple duty as a keyboard, an ashtray, and a desktop atrocity*.

Can anyone identify it?  I am vaguely reminded of one of the economy models that IBM was churning out shortly before they decided they did not want to make keyboards anymore, but I am grasping at straws with that guess.






*And, quite possibly, a headrest, should the hands in the photo start reaching for that bottle on the right.

[Findecanor]

It looks to me as if the Esc key is 1.25u, but I'm not entirely sure.
A keyboard with an 1.25u Esc key and the text on modifiers small and top-aligned would BTC 5140 with Windows keys.

Many 5140 were made for Packard Bell, in at least two case variations, one of which is unique to Packard Bell.
But I don't know a 5140 case variation that has that detail in the upper right corner.

The layout could be German. More likely also because there's a bottle with German text there also.
BTW. Funny that there's a box of antacids ... next to the cigarettes and alcohol. Alcohol and cigarettes upset the stomach.

[norolim]

It's a BTC 5121.

[Stupidface]

BTW. Funny that there's a box of antacids ... next to the cigarettes and alcohol. Alcohol and cigarettes upset the stomach.

Yes, I had wondered about the cigarettes/alcohol/antacids trifecta as well (although I suppose if you reach for the bottle on the right often enough, the upset stomach won't seem nearly as bad). 

A keyboard with an 1.25u Esc key and the text on modifiers small and top-aligned would BTC 5140 with Windows keys.

Between the poor picture quality and the keyboard-as-ashtray bit, I don't know if we'll ever be able to say for sure, but that sounds like a good guess.  I favour it myself because, from what I can make out, the BTC 5140 sounds like a mediocre keyboard at best and I would hate to think that someone was ruining a good one.

(Granted, a keyboard owner is perfectly at liberty to use his keyboard as an ashtray should he feel so inclined.)

Thank you for the reply.

[Stupidface]

It's a BTC 5121.

Thank you for the reply; that is a great picture.

Perhaps I am alone in this, but I am always impressed with keyboards that have worn-away lettering because I grew up with Big Blue keyboards that had the lettering moulded into (as opposed to printed onto) the keys, making it impossible for them to wear away.

[mollytat]

Sounds like the keyboard of a real IT person at home, the kind of freelance work where you don't take advantage of all the opportunities that remote work and free hours give you, you don't lead a healthy lifestyle and don't feel relaxed, of course there is no sport, it's definitely not a lifestyle for me