Costar Electronics Inc, was established in 1987. Costar Electronics has concentrated mostly on ODM Business which includes a series of Products, like Keyboards as well as Keypads with high quality and now Costar further becomes the most competitive OEM / ODM Business maker which has an increasing market share for PC’s, Industrial & Medical Keyboards and P.O.S in the whole world.
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Well elitekeyboards seems to be a distributor for Diatec's Filco Keyboards.
So i'm thinking ordering directly from Diatec could be cheaper :/ hm .... i'm pending a price quote so i can compare.
Please include these other companies.
Below are a list of keyboard companies that send their specs to Costar Electronics (http://www.costar.com.tw) an OEM Taiwanese company to manufacture them. So basically their all done by the same manufacturer but with different specs.
Diatec (http://www.diatec.co.jp/en/) (A Japanese company) = Filco Majestouch
I spoke to a Japanese representative from Diatec via mail enquiring about buying directly from them. They were very professional courteous, and surprisingly communicated with excellent mastery of English in their email correspondence.
Ducky Channel (http://www.duckychannel.com.tw/) (Some Taiwanese company that caters to KBC (http://bbs.kbc-china.com/) a Chinese keyboard enthusiast forum) = Ducky 9000, 9008, 1087, 1008
Metadot Corporation (http://www.metadot.com/) (Austin, Texas, USA company) = DAS
Steelseries (http://steelseries.com/) (A Dannish company) = Steelseries 6gv2, 7G
PS: For some reason, Ducky Channels website also lists DAS keyboards. I am unsure what their relation is to Metadot Corporation who owns the DAS franchise.
DAS was listed under Ducky because they are OEM by the same factory, Ducky is also presenting DAS as Asian area agent.
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I emailed them twice during the early Miniguru days (prototype finished, website not).
They never wrote back.
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