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Title: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: milankooo1978 on Mon, 08 April 2013, 14:23:35
hi gents, I've come across this one on local auction portal, but not sure if it's worth bidding, cos can't find any information. Would you please help me identify this board? tried google search by pictures, but no matches.
thanks a lot!
M.
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Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: boost on Mon, 08 April 2013, 14:26:11
never seen that keyboard before and the capslock looks a bit funny.
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: longface on Mon, 08 April 2013, 14:40:22
Never seen anything like this. 

I had my very first typewriting lesson on a Olivertti typewriter when I was a kid..... Uh so many years ago....
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: E TwentyNine on Mon, 08 April 2013, 15:01:23
Did you get a picture of the bottom label?
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: milankooo1978 on Mon, 08 April 2013, 15:26:11
Did you get a picture of the bottom label?
I asked the seller for more info, but no reply yet  :-[
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: maxmalkav on Mon, 08 April 2013, 15:44:22
Mmmm, Olivetti, Italian design  :cool:

They made some very nice pieces of hardware back in the day.

The keycaps look a lot like my old rubber dome Olivetti keyboard (they were shipped with PC based on Intel 486 processors). The font is also quite similar (both alphas and modifiers). It's only a guess, but I'd say RD but probably a quite nice one. If it's not expensive and it's in good shape, maybe it's worth buying it for the "vintage" experience ;)
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: eth0s on Mon, 08 April 2013, 16:41:45
Ask the seller to remove a keycap, and take a pic?
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: milankooo1978 on Mon, 08 April 2013, 16:55:08
ok, so no more info yet, but hey guys, thanks for your kind feedback !
question: any tips on what those weird things in upper middle might be?
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: rootwyrm on Tue, 09 April 2013, 00:23:10
Oh come ON guys.

It's a Point Of Sale or Reservation System keyboard. How can nobody have noticed this right off the bat? The three black circles in the top are mounts for display or holders, or possibly attachment to the base. (The 0/00/000 layout of the numpad also gives it away.)

Olivetti keyboards come in several flavors, which include rebranding genuine Cherry G80/G81 family (which this is not) and nice rubber domes. Given the odd keycap profiles and such, I'd have to guess this is a rubber dome, but can't say for sure.
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: dmreeves on Tue, 09 April 2013, 01:08:58
Oh come ON guys.

It's a Point Of Sale or Reservation System keyboard. How can nobody have noticed this right off the bat? The three black circles in the top are mounts for display or holders, or possibly attachment to the base. (The 0/00/000 layout of the numpad also gives it away.)

Olivetti keyboards come in several flavors, which include rebranding genuine Cherry G80/G81 family (which this is not) and nice rubber domes. Given the odd keycap profiles and such, I'd have to guess this is a rubber dome, but can't say for sure.


And you call yourselves geeks, for shame ;p
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: milankooo1978 on Thu, 11 April 2013, 04:30:26
ok, so finally I've got info on this one.
The ID sticker says: ANK 2511/N Olivetti made in Italy
So far, I was not able to google any information regarding the keyboard.
sigh  :'(
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: pasph on Thu, 11 April 2013, 10:35:34
All the Olivetti ANK was rubber domes
Is QZERTY so was probably done before '83, for sure is a pre '86 model:
http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1988/12/16/pdfs/A35313-35313.pdf (http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1988/12/16/pdfs/A35313-35313.pdf)
Title: Re: Rare Olivetti kbd - please help
Post by: milankooo1978 on Thu, 11 April 2013, 11:21:30
All the Olivetti ANK was rubber domes
Is QZERTY so was probably done before '83, for sure is a pre '86 model:
http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1988/12/16/pdfs/A35313-35313.pdf (http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1988/12/16/pdfs/A35313-35313.pdf)

thanks for info man !
I won't spend my bucks for rubber domes, even if this one looks nice  ;D