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Title: Help me identify this keyboard
Post by: LEGITBALLIN on Fri, 30 December 2011, 10:30:47

what is this this is all the info i got.
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It's labeled "Versyss" of face of keyboard.   Is labeled "AST" on back.
 
Model KB-101, P/N:  119127-001 rev C.
 
NMB Technologies, Inc
Chatsworth, CA 91311

also is it mechanical?

the guy said it was distinctivly clickey.
it looks like an model m clone, but im not sure, it even could be rebranded.

Title: Help me identify this keyboard
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 30 December 2011, 10:57:12

Hard to tell without a keycap off. Could be NMB 'space invaders' mechanical, or a rubber dome. It shipped with the AST Bravo 386SX, so it is old enough to be mechanical. Versyss seems to have been a computer supply company.
I found all of this out with google, pretty neat huh?

Title: Help me identify this keyboard
Post by: LEGITBALLIN on Fri, 30 December 2011, 16:22:24

soooo, what does nmb mean?

Title: Help me identify this keyboard
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 30 December 2011, 16:24:46

NMB is the original manufacturer. Look in the vintage switch wiki to read more about them.

Title: Help me identify this keyboard
Post by: mouse.the.lucky.dog on Mon, 02 January 2012, 03:04:06

AST KB-101 generally mean plunger over rubber done.

Title: Help me identify this keyboard
Post by: keyboardlover on Mon, 02 January 2012, 07:13:21

I have become comfortably nmb.