Siemens-Nixdorf: worth anything?

[Kouni]

I just found a listing for a weird looking board, but I can't seem to find any info on it....



This is a Siemens-Nixdorf KB, French ISO, well kinda if you look at the vertical Enter and the stepped keys to the left.

The spherical keycaps are intriguing to say the least, this was probably made in Germany, is there any chance I might find Cherry switches underneath?

[MKULTRA]

I just found a listing for a weird looking board, but I can't seem to find any info on it....

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This is a Siemens-Nixdorf KB, French ISO, well kinda if you look at the vertical Enter and the stepped keys to the left.

The spherical keycaps are intriguing to say the least, this was probably made in Germany, is there any chance I might find Cherry switches underneath?

I believe it has vintage Blacks with clear housings?

[Photekq]

I believe it has vintage Blacks with clear housings?

It was a Nixdorf that had those, but I'm not sure if it's this one. I don't think it is..

[Kouni]

vintage Blacks with clear housings

On the off-chance this is the case, I'm willing to spend a few euros and a little time to find out!

[Photekq]

Actually no.. It won't have them. The PCBs that did have them had 119 switches total. That one has 104.

[Kouni]

Were those only ever stuck on 1 pcb?
I'm probably gonna end up with yet another RD I guess... oh well.

[Photekq]

AFAIK yes, the keyboard was advertised as 'Soft Touch' and the PCB looks like this :

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=46552.0;topicseen

[Jesterfox]

Well... I give you a 99% chance that its just a rubber dome keyboard. It already has windows keys, so it isn't that old. And I already have typed on some of these Siemens keyboards and own a FSC KBPC PX with very similar keycaps. They are not that bad, but not mechanical.

[Kouni]

Well, here it is, plain rubberdome. Only thing vaguely special is the detachable ps/2 cord.

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