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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Geroximo on Wed, 17 December 2014, 15:42:33

Title: What are these keyboards?
Post by: Geroximo on Wed, 17 December 2014, 15:42:33

Hello guys,
does anybody know which keyboards these are and if they are worth buying?

Well first one is from NMB Technologies Inc, Hi-Tek keyboard Division, obviously.
Does it use the Hi-Tek switches? Is it worth getting it?
(http://i.imgur.com/yscWODQ.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/rILa4rp.jpg)

And for the second one, I do not have any idea what this thing is .... Does anybody know?
(http://i.imgur.com/0MuSstA.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/gnpblHP.jpg)

Title: Re: What are these keyboards?
Post by: Daniel Beardsmore on Wed, 17 December 2014, 16:13:03

The first one is rubberdome. Still waiting on the "community" to pull together and make some progress in confirming which of the RT100/RT6000 series use sliders.

The Fujitsu FKB4700 uses "Peerless" switches; I am not familiar with the FKB4800 — it's not a well-known model at all. It's worth a few quid for research purposes (to collect solely to photograph and document on the wiki) but I don't sense that it's worth much more.

Title: Re: What are these keyboards?
Post by: Geroximo on Thu, 18 December 2014, 00:19:53

Thank you very much, helped me alot.  :thumb:

Title: Re: What are these keyboards?
Post by: davkol on Thu, 18 December 2014, 09:04:09

Wasn't FKB4800 a rubber dome?

Title: Re: What are these keyboards?
Post by: Daniel Beardsmore on Thu, 18 December 2014, 16:23:37

Rubber dome is pretty much a given here for the Fujitsu, but what's not clear is whether it's a Peerless variant (clicky), or a plain rubber dome, or some other dome+slider design — it's not a common keyboard at all, hence its small value for research purposes.

Title: Re: What are these keyboards?
Post by: user 18 on Thu, 18 December 2014, 16:45:52

Even if it is the peerless, they aren't much of a switch. I tried a board with peerless switches before I got into keyboards, almost turned me away from mech boards altogether.

Title: Re: What are these keyboards?
Post by: davkol on Thu, 18 December 2014, 18:35:09

The plate and keycaps may look promising, but it's an ordinary rubber dome, with nearly linear travel IIRC.

OTOH, I don't mind the peerless switches (and Acer clicky switches, and…).