A Trip Down Memory Lane (Vintage Keyboard Extravaganza)

[merlin64]

A few months ago, my wife surprised me by taking me to the Living Computer Museum, located in Seattle Washington. It was filled with a bunch of old computers all in working order. However as amazed as I was with the computers, I was more focused on the number of vintage keyboards that were in my presence. Perhaps this is a good place to hold some keyboard meetup as they have a classroom type setting in the back. Anyway I wanted to share some of my photos with you all =). You'll see some familiar and not so familiar keyboards. Hope you all enjoy

Mods: It's pictures of keyboards, so I think it fits here, but if not, please feel free to move. Thanks.

[Shaussman]

Damn, I didn't realize how many boards used SA keycaps back then. This is cool though, thanks for sharing

[HPE1000]

That adam colecovision family computer system keyboard is so odd. Every single key is a different shade. It is like that on almost all of the examples on google images as well.

[neverused]

Damn, I didn't realize how many boards used SA keycaps back then. This is cool though, thanks for sharing

I'm pretty sure SA is unique to Signature Plastics, though sculpted caps in general are not.

[chyros]

Pretty cool . I've been meaning to find out if there's a computer museum near me to ask them if they needed to get rid of some of their stuff xD .

[merlin64]

This computer museum was one of Paul Allen's projects I believe. Since it's been months since I've taken photos, I've forgotten what each of these systems were. Anyone care to offer some insight?

[xtrafrood]

IS YOUR METER ON C.P.U.

What in the word is that keyboard case made of? Stucco? Or is that plastic? My god.

[merlin64]

That's like a 60% layout in a giant case.

[xtrafrood]

That's like a 60% layout in a giant case.

My family had an electric typer writer when I was a kid but nothing like that IBM beast. I looked up the model. Holy moley!

[ctm]

Cool! Thank you for sharing. I will definitely visit this museum when I go to Seattle.

[rowdy]

And every keyboard had a different layout!

Sweet memories