Received this recently and I can find very little about the switches and absolutely nothing about the keyboard or the pc/system it could have come from.
Does anyone else have any ideas or more info about the origins of this thing?
The back.
The casing appears to have been machine fabricated by the appearance of the bends, and the top has a nice rough texture. The timber sides make me wonder if it was pulled from something and the sides were then made for it, and the ribbon cable adds to that theory as it would have run to the mainboard.
Some distinctive keys that make me wonder if it was an input device on a 'mainframe' or possibly an electronic typewriter: Control, Line Feed, Repeat, Null and the best one, Super Shift.
This is the inside and the switches at the top are SMK but are unused. No manufacturer name on the pcb but has the date code of 8103.
The keyswitches are Clare-Pendar foil and foam, for which there is very little info on also.
I would love to have some idea about it's origins if possible.