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Offline Tarkoon

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Loewe TBT04S (clicky plate mounted MX white, grey and ULTRA-blue)
« on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 07:06:22 »
Hi, today I had a really great find!!!

It is a brand new keyboard from the German company Loewe - model "TBT 04 S".
It is ultra heavy built with platemounted clicky Cherry MX switches.
The standard keys have white clicky switches, the space bar a grey clicky switch and the RESET key has a kind of blue clicky switch I never saw or felt before!
It is ULTRA hard to press!!! I do not have enough coins here to do a precise test, but the weight of my digicam (265g) didn't even move the switch a mm!
All switches are plate mounted and enter and space have plate mounted stabilizers.
Whether the caps are PBT, ABS or something alse I can not define. They are not double shots but the labels have a nice contrast.

Enough talking, here are some first pictures:

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« Last Edit: Tue, 20 March 2012, 07:17:16 by Tarkoon »
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Offline keyboardlover

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Loewe TBT04S (clicky plate mounted MX white, grey and ULTRA-blue)
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 08:43:05 »
Crazy layout...where did you find it?
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Loewe TBT04S (clicky plate mounted MX white, grey and ULTRA-blue)
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 09:19:17 »
Wow, look at the CTRL/tab swap, the purely vertical enter, the "sp" bey, etc. Very interesting. I would suspect the keycaps are ABS. Do you have any acetone?

Looks like flat profile, too. crazy.

Wow, look at the number row.
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Searching for "lowe TBT04S Tastatur" yields one german ebay link (which is past 90 days old, so no info)amd some info from a museum website:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=Loewe+TBT04S+Tastatur
« Last Edit: Tue, 20 March 2012, 09:31:49 by dorkvader »
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Offline Human

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Loewe TBT04S (clicky plate mounted MX white, grey and ULTRA-blue)
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 10:10:33 »
Cool, Cherry MX White(not Clear). An EOLed clicky switch which no much keyboard documented having it.

Oh wait, do you mean that the Cherry Blue isn't normal/typical cherry blue? And also it is a Clicky Grey switch? It is certainly a great find.

BTW, 250g and a switch doesn't even move 1mm? If only individual/single switch exhibit such behaviours, I suggest that the particular switch is faulty, LOL...
« Last Edit: Tue, 20 March 2012, 10:25:08 by Human »
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Offline Blazestorm

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« Reply #4 on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 10:54:37 »
Well it is the Reset key, if that sends the reset/restart signal to the computer I wouldn't want to press that by accident.
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« Reply #5 on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 11:04:27 »
Quote from: Blazestorm;551476
Well it is the Reset key, if that sends the reset/restart signal to the computer I wouldn't want to press that by accident.

But why use a Cherry MX switch instead of other button switch?
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Offline JohnDiew0107

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Loewe TBT04S (clicky plate mounted MX white, grey and ULTRA-blue)
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 11:06:03 »
QWERTZ layout @@
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Offline Tarkoon

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Loewe TBT04S (clicky plate mounted MX white, grey and ULTRA-blue)
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 11:09:51 »
The ultra heavy switch is the one with the blue stem used in the reset key. I will take a coin measurement if I find enough coins! ;-)
I also have the manual of this board. ;-)
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Offline Tarkoon

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« Reply #8 on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 11:19:06 »
Just three fast photos from the manual made with my smartphone:
The manual shows 3 more layers - have to check if they are hardcoded or just some software stuff on a special machine it came with...
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Offline IvanIvanovich

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« Reply #9 on: Tue, 20 March 2012, 11:26:37 »
Certainly unusual and unique looking. Very retro feel. I do really like the body for some reason. It seems it was designed around some call center use maybe? I couldn't see myself using it as my daily board at all due to the layout, and where is the alt key?
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