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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Egnomic on Sun, 19 January 2020, 01:03:24

Title: A vintage(ish) 65% layout with f1-15? I think it's an apple clone of some form.
Post by: Egnomic on Sun, 19 January 2020, 01:03:24

I've posted this on deskthority without much luck so I'm trying my luck here.

This is my doctoral advisor’s keyboard. I don’t know that much about vintage keyboards, but it doesn’t look like any apple keyboard I’ve ever seen before, especially since it’s 65%. It connects via USB, and I think it might have two ports on the side. Deskthority thinks it's a clone of some form (I feel like if it was made by apple its existence would be known by now).

I’ve only typed on it for a minute while fixing his computer but it feels quite nice. I can’t find a reference to this keyboard anywhere, but I’m probably looking in the wrong places. I couldn't find anything on the deskthority wiki, eBay or just google image searches.

I'm sorry for the bad picture, I had to snap one quickly when he very briefly left the office so he wouldn’t think I’m a weirdo. I didn’t get the chance to flip it over and it might be months till I get the chance to be in his office unaccompanied again.

And yes, I know it's filthy. Academics are weird.

(https://i.imgur.com/05QSX7p.jpg)

Title: Re: A vintage(ish) 65% layout with f1-15? I think it's an apple clone of some form.
Post by: NukaCola on Sun, 19 January 2020, 09:44:42

Did some quick googling and found this. Looks like keycaps from an Apple Extended Keyboard II fit into a custom case.

 http://zacbir.net/2018/05/24/elegance-distilled-the-60-apple-extended-keyboard-ii/ (http://zacbir.net/2018/05/24/elegance-distilled-the-60-apple-extended-keyboard-ii/)


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Title: Re: A vintage(ish) 65% layout with f1-15? I think it's an apple clone of some form.
Post by: Egnomic on Sun, 19 January 2020, 19:26:02

It's been identified over at deskthority as the DSI smk88: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Strong_Man_SMK-88