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Offline NeedAFix

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Win98SE Keyboard Identification
« on: Sat, 07 February 2015, 19:06:29 »
Guess I finally ran across an interesting old keyboard.

Neighbor showed me an old Win98SE rig and after removing an incorrectly placed jumper it boots up just fine, this is the keyboard that came with it. Seems to be a complete PC set from the 90's and nobody wants it, haha. Nostalgic item for sure, Pentium w/ 64mb single sided ram, 4gb HDD, the works. Pretty snappy actually, for an old computer. The whole set has been sitting in a corner covered the whole time so it is in fairly decent condition. Don't know if it is dome hybrid or what but the keycaps work kind of like cherry MX which they obviously are not and the shift has an interesting slot setup.

If anyone is interested, it is available.

The keyboard:
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Re: Win98SE Keyboard Idetification
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 07 February 2015, 19:07:13 »
Slider over rummer dome
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Re: Win98SE Keyboard Identification
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 07 February 2015, 19:10:07 »
NMB RT6655TW from the label in the back.

Switches look to be rubber dome with sliders.
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Re: Win98SE Keyboard Identification
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 07 February 2015, 19:12:22 »
The crazy connector gave me a laugh, this PC is so old it doesn't even have an ethernet port.

A blast from the past.

@ post below ~ thanks for letting me know. :)
« Last Edit: Sat, 07 February 2015, 19:15:54 by NeedAFix »
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Re: Win98SE Keyboard Identification
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 07 February 2015, 19:12:41 »
nmb sliders, those keycaps will fit and work on topre c switches. thats the most interesting thing about the keyboard imo.
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Re: Win98SE Keyboard Identification
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 08 February 2015, 03:40:59 »
Quote from: NeedAFix on Sat, 07 February 2015, 19:12:22
The crazy connector gave me a laugh, this PC is so old it doesn't even have an ethernet port.

A blast from the past.

@ post below ~ thanks for letting me know. :)

It's only an AT connector.

Kids today :)) :p
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Re: Win98SE Keyboard Identification
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 08 February 2015, 03:44:54 »
I have nothing to add but was floored about the jumper. That's so awesome. Been quite a while since reading about or dealing with that situation. Thanks for the nostalgia!
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Re: Win98SE Keyboard Identification
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 08 February 2015, 14:56:26 »
There are lots of older keyboards that have individual sliders over rubber domes. Some of them have keycaps that are more or less compatible with Cherry MX or Alps, but many don't. Alps-compatibility seems to be more common.

Back in the late '90s, home computers used modems to connect to the Internet over the phone line.
I did have an Ethernet card in my PC for LAN parties and gaming with friends at the local hackerspace which had a dual-ISDN line (super-fast 128 kbps!) to the Internet. Back then the card instead of a modular connector, it used a BNC connector which was supposed to connect to a T-plug on a single thick (shielded) Ethernet cable shared by all computers on the LAN.
The cable provided the "Ether" in Ethernet, and you didn't need any hub, switch or router for that.
« Last Edit: Sun, 08 February 2015, 15:01:47 by Findecanor »
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