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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ander on Sat, 19 December 2015, 06:33:58
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Don't these IBM SurePOS KBs look odd?:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gUcAAOSw5ZBWQQmI/s-l1600.jpg)
I mean, they're all over the place. Dr. Seuss could've designed them.
Oh, and you can buy 1000 of them (http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Keyboards-SurePOS-Canpos-II-SPANISH-Modular-Compact-Iron-Gray-Lot-of-100-/252196548286) if you want to. They're in Spanish, though.
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Point of Sales keyboards are designed for in-store applications.
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Buckling springs?
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Mitsumi rubber dome, I think. I have the non-compact ANPOS version.
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Point of Sales keyboards are designed for in-store applications.
Which, when you think about it, is a very good place for them, as they're used to conduct sales (hence the name).
Here's what baffles me, though: When they made the first POS board, how was anyone able to buy it?
Mitsumi rubber dome, I think. I have the non-compact ANPOS version.
You mean there's something that's "non-compact" compared to this?
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Here's what baffles me, though: When they made the first POS board, how was anyone able to buy it?
What it seems like is that IBM first bundled these as part of a pos unit--system, barcode readers, etc. Then of course, they need spare parts. And then the parts are no longer current and end up on ebay, etc.
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Mitsumi rubber dome, I think. I have the non-compact ANPOS version.
You mean there's something that's "non-compact" compared to this?
Full-size, as opposed to rack-width. See IBM's site (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=pos1R1004156).