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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: TheAngelicWolf on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:34:46
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I have this relatively old Macally keyboard laying around and a few keycaps are missing. But I've been wondering, what switches are these?
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looks like a slider over a rubber dome, which is what I expect of a mcally kb of this age. I think the keycaps are alps compatible though.
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Is that an Apple keyboard?
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looks like a slider over a rubber dome, which is what I expect of a mcally kb of this age. I think the keycaps are alps compatible though.
Yeah I asked somewhere else and they said the same thing ;)
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Is that an Apple keyboard?
Yeah it is. I used to use the old eMacs and I remember plugging this keyboard into it. But it works fine for Windows.
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Is that an Apple keyboard?
Yeah it is. I used to use the old eMacs and I remember plugging this keyboard into it. But it works fine for Windows.
In that case definitely rubber dome.
Mac and PC keyboards are interchangeable - just that the older Mac keyboards had a couple of extra keys. And Win/Alt are swapped around.
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Is that an Apple keyboard?
Yeah it is. I used to use the old eMacs and I remember plugging this keyboard into it. But it works fine for Windows.
In that case definitely rubber dome.
Mac and PC keyboards are interchangeable - just that the older Mac keyboards had a couple of extra keys. And Win/Alt are swapped around.
I run into that whole Win/Alt nonsense all the time, I'm still not used to it.
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Is that an Apple keyboard?
mcally has historically made a lot of stuff for apples. They are like assimilation technologies (and later kensington after they acquired them in the late 80s)
so techncially it's not an apple kb, but rather a KB for apple. Sort of like the matias today.
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Is that an Apple keyboard?
mcally has historically made a lot of stuff for apples. They are like assimilation technologies (and later kensington after they acquired them in the late 80s)
so techncially it's not an apple kb, but rather a KB for apple. Sort of like the matias today.
What's the difference? :rolleyes:
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An Apple KB is made by Apple itself. A KB for apple is a keyboard made by a third party manufacturer, which is designed for use with Apple computers.
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An Apple KB is made by Apple itself. A KB for apple is a keyboard made by a third party manufacturer, which is designed for use with Apple computers.
Ohhhh, that makes sense.