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Offline moonexe

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What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 12:20:17 »
I came across a few of those on Google... They have 104 keys, but the |\ key shares the usual Backspace area, leaving the Enter key extending upwards.
Example:


And then there's the 106-key ones, with two extra modifiers:


Anyone have any experience with those or know anything about them?
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Offline Heliosphere

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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 13:19:02 »
Reminds me of the Model F AT:



Same tiny backspace and big ass enter key.
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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 13:27:54 »
Yep, that layout was super popular in the early to mid 1990s (and as you note is still produced today). Basically a mashup of the PC/AT and “enhanced” (Model M) keyboard layouts.

Around here, we call that the “bigass enter” key.
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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 13:32:01 »
I think it's a quite normal layout.

SteelSeries 6Gv2 and 7G both have small Backspace key and large Enter key as well.



I don't like them tho, it's hard to replace new keycaps for them.
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Offline moonexe

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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 14:05:51 »
Huh, I was never aware of it. Interesting.
What about the 106 keys?
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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 14:11:50 »
That is Korean layout. I think the two additional keys are called Hangul and Hanja.
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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 14:24:52 »
Quote from: moonexe on Tue, 09 December 2014, 14:05:51
Huh, I was never aware of it. Interesting.
What about the 106 keys?

additionally there are about a thousand ALPS clones made in asia that have that layout (large enter key and split backspace). It was so prevalent it's almost a de facto standard now.
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Offline moonexe

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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 14:25:47 »
Quote from: Findecanor on Tue, 09 December 2014, 14:11:50
That is Korean layout. I think the two additional keys are called Hangul and Hanja.

Oh, right. I knew the functions existed, having used the Korean layout a few times, but not that some keyboards had dedicated keys.
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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 15:48:39 »
The Japanese Layout also has two extra modifiers
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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 17:45:29 »
Oh god no, not the dreaded 1u backspace key :-X
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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 18:44:41 »
Quote from: hwood34 on Wed, 10 December 2014, 17:45:29
Oh god no, not the dreaded 1u backspace key :-X

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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 18:50:57 »
I don't think it's unique to Korean boards, although it may still be more popular there.

I remember my first two keyboards (early 1990s) had the large Enter and small Backspace. I have two keyboards now that still have it from the same era (KPT-102 and Chicony KB-5181).

It does take a moment to adjust but isn't really a big problem. I, too, don't really see any kind of advantage of this setup though.
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Re: What's up with those weird Korean keyboards?
« Reply #12 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 20:57:12 »
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