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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: IBI on Fri, 29 February 2008, 11:23:06
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The picture on this ebay auction looks familar:
Linky (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/7-X-KEYTRONIC-5PIN-DIN-AT-KEYBOARDS_W0QQitemZ140211090540QQihZ004QQcategoryZ96882QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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i've got one of those at home, it's a rubber dome keyboard, but unlike a lot of cheap keyboards the back plate is curved like a model m's.
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Yep, rubber dome cosmetic-clone Keytronics. Note how the LED panel is just a little too short. I believe these were the basis of the Das I.
I recall seeing one a while back with an old Compaq logo on; the first glance suggestion of IBM licensing the design to Compaq back in the late eighties took me aback for a moment, I'll say.
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You should be able to get them much cheaper. (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200123987699)
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Once I bought one of these on ebay because it looked like it could be a Model M under a different brand ... you can imagine how disapponted I was when I got it :-)
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Just like the original Das.
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Just like the original Das.
Exactly. But I was prevented from making the same mistake again because of its rather steep price :-)
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they have those at the UC Berkeley library... they really aren't that bad, probably the best rubber dome keys I've used.