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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: JackpotNZ on Tue, 08 March 2011, 03:06:06

Title: Identify Keyboard
Post by: JackpotNZ on Tue, 08 March 2011, 03:06:06

Could someone please identify this keyboard located in the middle please. It is on a auction site and they do not wish to answer my question concerning the IBM keyboard.

(http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/89/150128189_full.jpg)


Known Info from seller-

PCDirect - Big plug
IBM - Small plug
Compaq - Small plug

Title: Identify Keyboard
Post by: gilgam on Tue, 08 March 2011, 04:19:22

I they don't want to answer, don't buy it , no ?

Title: Identify Keyboard
Post by: BigBrother on Tue, 08 March 2011, 04:26:08

just tell the guy to take off a key and take pics... or you'll light christmas tree on fire.

Title: Identify Keyboard
Post by: keyb_gr on Tue, 08 March 2011, 05:23:34

Looks like a KB-8923 or somesuch. Rubber dome in any case. The one on top may be a mechanical though, looks like a Chicony KB-5191.

Title: Identify Keyboard
Post by: What is X? on Tue, 08 March 2011, 05:31:56

just looking at it i don't think it's mechanical, but if the seller wants to sell it he'll give you a pic if you ask for it.

Title: Identify Keyboard
Post by: mrt88 on Tue, 08 March 2011, 08:56:07

the top one might be, as for the middle one if the seller doesn't want to give you the information you ask for then don't buy

Title: Identify Keyboard
Post by: JBert on Tue, 08 March 2011, 16:10:48

Quote from: keyb_gr;307482

Looks like a KB-8923 or somesuch. Rubber dome in any case. The one on top may be a mechanical though, looks like a Chicony KB-5191.

It certainly looks like a Chicony-OEM-ed rubber dome, but it has a 101-key ANSI layout. The 8923 uses the 104 ANSI layout.

An early Chicony rubber dome then?