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Offline Jixr

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are any of these old boards BS?
« on: Tue, 14 October 2014, 16:23:22 »
Found a few of these for sale local, didn't know if any of them are worth picking up.

I think it would be neat to have an old buckeling spring board.




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Offline hwood34

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Re: are any of these old boards BS?
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 14 October 2014, 16:26:47 »
no and no
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Offline Touch_It

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Re: are any of these old boards BS?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 14 October 2014, 16:29:36 »
a quick search shows that they are likely both rubber dome keybaords :(  I wouldn't mind someone to help me confirm it though.

Should have been more clear.  Definitely not BS at a glance.  Further research yielded the gateway was rd.  Idk if gateway ever made mechanical keybaords or not?
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Offline faceyourfaces

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Re: are any of these old boards BS?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 14 October 2014, 16:54:52 »
Only IBM made Buckling Spring boards (Lexmark later on and now Unicomp), so that rules out the HP. The IBM board doesn't appear to be Buckling Spring either, sorry.
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Re: are any of these old boards BS?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 14 October 2014, 16:58:38 »
Quote from: faceyourfaces on Tue, 14 October 2014, 16:54:52
Only IBM made Buckling Spring boards (Lexmark later on and now Unicomp), so that rules out the HP. The IBM board doesn't appear to be Buckling Spring either, sorry.

not wholly true, AT&T licensed the technology for their KB305 keyboard. See here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dork_vader/sets/72157642980194624/

Ya sheng also copied the design (poorly), and I think alps has some similar switches.

That said, Idont think there were any other "mainline" US companies like Dell or HP with them.
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Offline Jixr

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Re: are any of these old boards BS?
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 14 October 2014, 16:59:27 »
aww. oh well, thanks for confirming guys.
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