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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Melvang on Mon, 15 April 2013, 17:56:55

Title: ID??
Post by: Melvang on Mon, 15 April 2013, 17:56:55

Any idea if this is domes or something else?  It was from a computer my parents  had built for them back around 1997 or so.

Title: Re: ID??
Post by: SmallFry on Mon, 15 April 2013, 17:58:13

Looks like a dome board. Boards with the rubber buttons up top are typically dome unless you're Corsair and throw that all out the window.

Title: Re: ID??
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 15 April 2013, 18:08:01

DIT sold the cheapest keyboards possible, bad domes for sure.

Title: Re: ID??
Post by: Melvang on Mon, 15 April 2013, 18:24:34

Alright thanks guys was curious with the ISO layout and the larger than normal ESC key

Title: Re: ID??
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 15 April 2013, 19:20:58

Not ISO, just terrible Asian ANSI.

Title: Re: ID??
Post by: Melvang on Mon, 15 April 2013, 21:32:37

I am still fairly new to this but what is the difference between this board and a true ISO layout?

Title: Re: ID??
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Tue, 16 April 2013, 09:03:32

This type of enter requires the \| key to be displaced to some odd location by shortening the backspace, shift, placing it between alt and ctrl... or something else. ISO has a different shape enter to allow extra key on the home row next to instead of above enter and a short left shift to allow an extra key there
(http://i.imgur.com/HZFBPh.jpg)
an ISO keyboard, you can see how it differs.