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Old Emerson AT keyboard with Yellow Alps
« on: Thu, 06 August 2009, 07:52:56 »
I ran across an old AT-style 84-key keyboard made by Emerson with yellow Alps keyswitches. It's at about 30USD right now and there's been no bids on it for a few days.

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« Reply #1 on: Thu, 06 August 2009, 11:58:33 »
Weird, it has the same layout as the IBM Model F.
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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 06 August 2009, 12:07:48 »
I think that the keyboard layouts from that era matches IBM's standard.  I had a Commodore Colt, and IBM XT clone, whose keyboard layout matched the XT layout for the Model F.  It was fairly short-lived as "XT" and "AT" moved from model names for IBM PCs to names for protocol standards.
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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 06 August 2009, 12:20:44 »
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Weird, it has the same layout as the IBM Model F.


As did just about every PC-compatible board of the era.

I can't imagine those linear Alps would be all that great. Anyone used them?
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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 06 August 2009, 12:24:47 »
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As did just about every PC-compatible board of the era.
 
I can't imagine those linear Alps would be all that great. Anyone used them?

I think XsPhat has, and if I remember correctly, he said they weren't bad.  Not great, though.
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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 06 August 2009, 12:32:04 »
Oh yeah. I think I remember him getting rid of his one because it was a Zenith board that had an inbuilt speaker, and he couldnt disable it.
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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 06 August 2009, 12:36:22 »
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Oh yeah. I think I remember him getting rid of his one because it was a Zenith board that had an inbuilt speaker, and he couldnt disable it.

Yeah, that's the one.
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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 06 August 2009, 12:41:12 »
When I first got my Model M, I looked for a speaker since at the time I didn't know too much about them. That's why I took it apart the first time.
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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 06 August 2009, 14:18:31 »
This was a beep speaker that sounded every time you pressed a key. IBM had ones in their terminal and Unix workstation keyboards which fulfilled the same job as an integrated beep speaker in a modern PC.
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