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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: HaaTa on Thu, 22 April 2010, 09:55:21

Title: BTron Keyboard
Post by: HaaTa on Thu, 22 April 2010, 09:55:21

webwit do you have one of these?

BTron Keyboard
(http://www.personal-media.co.jp/utronkb/images/tk1.jpg)

Google Translate Linky (http://translate.google.ca/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.personal-media.co.jp%2Futronkb%2Farticle.html&sl=ja&tl=en)

Title: BTron Keyboard
Post by: didjamatic on Thu, 22 April 2010, 10:12:05

Looks cool, like phone buttons on early tone dial phones, 2 sets of arrow keys, digitizer with stylus.

Title: BTron Keyboard
Post by: ricercar on Thu, 22 April 2010, 12:17:48

Hmm. Very strange. You go first. Looks like the trackpad is placed for use with the side of the thumb.

Title: BTron Keyboard
Post by: HaaTa on Thu, 22 April 2010, 17:44:18

Its not a track pad. It's a tablet sensor for a pen I'm pretty sure.

Title: BTron Keyboard
Post by: didjamatic on Thu, 22 April 2010, 19:28:25

Aka digitizer. :)

Title: BTron Keyboard
Post by: Nonmouse on Thu, 22 April 2010, 19:59:28

A little Googling shows that to be a TK1 TRON-compliant keyboard from Personal Media Corporation of Japan, from 1990. See pp 84-85 (http://"http://www.wtec.org/loyola/pdf/hci.pdf)  Seems to have been a kanji keyboard for those with disabilities.