I dunno but am concerned that genetically perfect people need such a large key just to hit ENTER.
lol Wow that's awesome. I have to re-watch that movie. Maybe there's some hint in the credits? Is that the one he had at work that he had to worry about his hair dropping into and keeping clean and junk? or a different one? They had those at the work workstations? Is there a windows key on it?
I dunno but am concerned that genetically perfect people need such a large key just to hit ENTER.
It does show a typing scene. It's clearly not a clicky. I'd say either alps creams, or brown cherries... Looks like an amazing board.
Could probably id it by listening to it and going through the audio clips.
I take it back, there's a second scene where it may be a clicky in fact, where he's still a janitor and using it, difficult to tell..hmmm...
Hmm, too bad there isn't any name visible on it. Is there perhaps a list of cherry boards somewhere? I wouldn't mind looking through one by one, should be easy enough to identify...
It's interesting that it doesn't show any indication of function keys at all. I would be leaning toward the side of saying that it was a cut down none functional board right now.
Oh really? What kind of connection do you think it used? I never noticed a cord... where wireless peripherals really around at that time?
No....that's another indication it's a good chance it's a fake or a cut down from another board. Though I suppose ir was, but I doubt it'd be bluetooth back then.
Maybe it's a mac keyboard though...didn't they have early keyboards without function keys? hmm...
It seems odd if it was a cut down keyboard that it would have the right side row like a real compact...but the lack of function keys, or any indication of them is really odd.
Hmm, well you're right about the old Mac keyboards, I don't think they started getting function keys until the mid 90s. They weren't wireless though, they had a connector that looked like a PS/2.
Also, what about the possibility of the function keys being accessed with an Fn-type key like on the HHKB?
Hmm, I definitely see your point, although at that quality it's just about impossible to really tell. I'll see if I can get my hands on a better quality copy for some improved screenshots.
One thing to consider is that from a filmmaking perspective, sawing off part of the keyboard doesn't make very much sense. The only reason I can think of for wanting to do it would be to remove a logo, but it seems like there are much easier ways to acompish that (i.e. paint it). I would imagine that little though was put into selecting they keyboards, they probably just looked in a computer catalog and said "that's good enough" and bought 20 of them, or whatever. I doubt that would have bother doing any kind of customization with it...
Film prop?
Here's a cherry I've never seen before. My guess is that it is a cut down, or early cherry.Show Image(http://media.digikey.com/photos/Cherry%20Switch%20Photos/MFG_G86-52400EUADAA.jpg)
http://cgi.ebay.com/KEYBOARD-WITH-MSR-CHERRY-MODEL-MPOS-G86-NEW_W0QQitemZ260522687507QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca85cbc13 (http://cgi.ebay.com/KEYBOARD-WITH-MSR-CHERRY-MODEL-MPOS-G86-NEW_W0QQitemZ260522687507QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca85cbc13)
Most likely it was a compact like this that they chopped the function key row off of, as well as decorded it.
They probably just ran them all through belt saw or something.
totally forgot about this part. i have the blu-ray. maybe it would help if i watched movies once in a while.
here you can see the hole from where the cord was removed (it seems, might be a blood drip though, it is hard to follow)
i know it is broken, but that front panel definitely does not look OEM
in this part, the top edge looks smooth / the same piece of plastic as the main body (no extra broken 'lip'?). hard to know for sure, i got frustrated with the camera movement when it reaches the end of the keyboard.
"Not one error in a million keystrokes" my ass, home row isnt even the least bit shiny
by the way, watching a blu ray on a computer is just as much a pain in the ass as always. i hope sometime soon i do not have to two (went through 3 though) pieces of software just to get it to play.
home/pgup/pgdn/end combo ... like the deck's
A WOMAN ASSISTANT whose keyboard was used in the attack has to
pause as a MAINTENANCE WORKER gives her work station a final
spray to return it to its former pristine condition. A new
keyboard is plugged into her monitor to replace the one taken as
evidence.
That switch looks similar to the NMB switches in V-Tech Laser keyboard.
I thought I might have found it, but I see the Enter key is wrong, having the ISO shape and not the AT shape. I thought there were pictures of similar keyboards here, so I searched, and I found one photo of a bunch of keyboards, some with black keys, some with white, some PS/2 and some USB, in woodgrain (but plastic) cases, with the brand name "ARON".
You can see in the photos here, though, that the keyboard in the film does have an Fn key on the left side, so it wouldn't need function keys.
Ah, you mean the kpt-84..right.
The funny part is, there's no pcb in these boards. It's a rubber dome, over a plastic sheet, they must have added it.
Sounds like a fearsome blunt weapon - LOL.
Probably it would have fallen apart from the air drag alone without that pcb.