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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ander on Tue, 19 April 2022, 23:03:26
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Has anyone ever seen anything like this?:
Retro Heroic Mechanical PS/2 Keyboard (https://www.ebay.com/itm/275045989748)
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It appears to be a relatively recent buckling spring knock-off—ala IBM Model M, but without barrels around the springs...?
The seller apparently had a lot of 20, and this (as I write) is the last one.
Oh, okay, it's actually one of these:
Syncan TK-M501C (https://deskthority.net/wiki/Syncan_TK-M501C)
...but in a newer case with media keys, etc. (Thanks, DT!) Interesting, huh?
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I had one of those, but it was older - I can't remember about Windows keys but there were certainly no media keys.
It came from a thrift store and I did not have high hopes for it but it was a real curiosity. It was dramatically inferior to ancient IBM iron, so I felt no need to keep it. And I quickly came to think that the translucent case was, at first silly, but later rather hideous. There was no color tint in mine.
All-in-all, it rose to the level of an "interesting curiosity" but hardly much farther.
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Cool. Never even heard of those. Did you pick one up? I might be on the look out now.
Doesn't look to have any metal plate to speak of, but it looks like it at least has some screws holding it all together instead of stupid plastic rivets?
I might hazard pitchforks and torches to say I would rather have a cheaper buckling spring board with no metal plate but sane construction than the conventional Model M design.