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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Myk! on Tue, 03 November 2015, 05:48:31

Title: Please help me identify this keyboard
Post by: Myk! on Tue, 03 November 2015, 05:48:31

A friend of mine send this photo to me. He is not familiar with a mechanical or buckling spring keyboard. He just saw this on a store few miles away. He forgot to check the back for the brand/model.

Can you identify this keyboard on its appearance?

Title: Re: Please help me identify this keyboard
Post by: boTy on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:22:02

Hmm, this is a hard one. Especially because the brand sticker seems to be missing from the top left.

Purely on how old it looks, and the layout, i would say it's mechanical. I can't guarantee anything though.

Can someone more knowledgeable come in?

Title: Re: Please help me identify this keyboard
Post by: nubbinator on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:26:10

Looks like a white Alps board.

Title: Re: Please help me identify this keyboard
Post by: Nover on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:30:22

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Monterey_K208

Title: Re: Please help me identify this keyboard
Post by: nubbinator on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:32:32

Quote from: Nover on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:30:22

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Monterey_K208

Looked like K104 to me.  I've only seen it in white Alps, but there are variations.

Title: Re: Please help me identify this keyboard
Post by: Findecanor on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:39:45

The 104 has a larger case.

I once bought a K208 on eBay, having hoped that it would be a 104...

Title: Re: Please help me identify this keyboard
Post by: Nover on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:40:19

Easy enough to mix those up, but the bezel of the K102-4 is slightly larger at the top .

Title: Re: Please help me identify this keyboard
Post by: Lepidus on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:42:28

Thats what im using here at work! A very ****ty rubber dome, even for a rubber dome.

At least their caps are alps compatible.

(http://i.imgur.com/Vbi28FD.jpg)

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