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Title: What keyboard is this?
Post by: TastaturenAuslese on Sun, 12 July 2015, 02:03:39

Found this at an electronics recycling depot and picked it up. Does anyone know what kind of switch type this is and what this keyboard could have come from?

It feels quite nice. I feel like it's a mechanical keyboard. It's got kind of a springy feeling to it, and if I listen closely enough, I can hear the same kind of pinging you hear in a model M, albeit way softer and lighter. It's pretty tactile to. You can feel the bump, and it feels similar to the buckle of a buckling spring (again softer and lighter).

Has a cherry profile (I think?).

In the back, I found like a 16-pin power connector of some sort.

Title: Re: What keyboard is this?
Post by: nubbinator on Sun, 12 July 2015, 02:50:07

Looks like a Futaba switch (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Futaba_clicky_switch).

Title: Re: What keyboard is this?
Post by: TastaturenAuslese on Sun, 12 July 2015, 02:54:10

Quote from: nubbinator on Sun, 12 July 2015, 02:50:07

Looks like a Futaba switch (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Futaba_clicky_switch).

Thank you! :D It was so hard to find, cause I swore I saw this switch on GH a while ago, but I couldn't google anything for "inverse MX switch" or "circle with cross keyboard switch". Nothing came up.

Any idea what board this is from?

Title: Re: What keyboard is this?
Post by: nubbinator on Sun, 12 July 2015, 03:13:11

Probably some sort of Telex or Fax Broadcast machine.