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Offline SamirD

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Are There Keycaps Like This?
« on: Wed, 06 December 2017, 12:50:21 »
I ran across this old ad for an Apricot computer and check out those keys!


Are there any keycaps out there like this?

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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 06 December 2017, 13:08:06 »
You forgot to post a picture or a link.

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« Reply #2 on: Wed, 06 December 2017, 14:21:33 »
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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 06 December 2017, 15:14:45 »
Thanks. I have seen a similar style bus higher profile on Tandberg keyboards with Cherry ML, and on keyboards by Tandberg or Siemens with Siemens switches or Rafi switches.
None that is Cherry MX-compatible though ... but that does not say that it does not exist.

I have also seen a few concept renderings of keyboards with a similar style. For example this one.

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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 07 December 2017, 02:07:26 »


fixed that for you
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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 07 December 2017, 06:55:03 »
Square keys on top of a square base are more common. Late-model Apple II keyboards such as the Apple Desktop Bus Keyboard (Alps) had cylindrical keys.
The typewriters Triump-Adler Gabriele 7007, 8008 and 9009 have Cherry MX-compatible keycaps with cylindrical depressions in a square but only for the 1×1 symbol keys. I have seen at least one project for converting such a keyboard into USB.

.. and then there are the various retro typewriter-inspired keyboards/keycaps with circular keycaps but with no rectangular skirts so there are wide gaps between the keys. But you must have seen those.

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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 07 December 2017, 07:01:50 »
There is the z series from devlin not exactly the same.


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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 07 December 2017, 19:38:45 »
I cant imagine that it would be nice to type on those.
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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 08 December 2017, 04:24:27 »
I cant imagine that it would be nice to type on those.

You could be typing with gloves and probably still feel the caps center tho :p

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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 08 December 2017, 17:55:37 »
TBH they look closer to XDA except for the weird edges.

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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 15 December 2017, 19:52:18 »
It looks like RAMA is going to find some though:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcezFl5n-ad/
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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #11 on: Fri, 15 December 2017, 21:45:49 »
Check out the Sinclair QL.
These keys are a bit more dished, but cut off at the top. The keycap mount is supposedly cross-shaped mount -- which may be Cherry MX compatible, but I don't know.
The ZX Spectrum + had a similar look but not the same.

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Re: Are There Keycaps Like This?
« Reply #12 on: Sat, 16 December 2017, 06:25:11 »
I feel like I've seen keycaps like those before (with the lip around the concave inner shape, possibly not with such a rounded radius) but don't seem to have saved it in my KB images directory. There are of course the vaguely similar but different Apple 'Cassie' prototype board and the one mentioned earlier though.