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What is this keyboard?
« on: Sun, 27 December 2020, 23:24:47 »
It seems like there should be a sticky "identify this thing" thread somewhere, but I can't find it... so... does anyone know what this keyboard is?

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Re: What is this keyboard?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 27 December 2020, 23:46:44 »
I did a search on the image. It turns out the original source of the image is a Reddit post by someone who bought the keyboard on eBay. It's a Sperry Univac keyboard with Hall Effect switches. Knowing that it's from Sperry Univac may give me a chance to find other images of the same keyboard to determine what terminal it came from.

Yes! I struck gold. Using the name of the manufacturer, I found this thread on Deskthority:
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=22641
which provides many more pictures of a specimen of this keyboard without a missing key.
« Last Edit: Sun, 27 December 2020, 23:51:43 by quadibloc »

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Re: What is this keyboard?
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 28 December 2020, 03:24:45 »
for future reference, DT has an identification thread and they can always give you an answer
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Re: What is this keyboard?
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 28 December 2020, 06:01:07 »
I did a search on the image. It turns out the original source of the image is a Reddit post by someone who bought the keyboard on eBay. It's a Sperry Univac keyboard with Hall Effect switches. Knowing that it's from Sperry Univac may give me a chance to find other images of the same keyboard to determine what terminal it came from.

Yes! I struck gold. Using the name of the manufacturer, I found this thread on Deskthority:
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=22641
which provides many more pictures of a specimen of this keyboard without a missing key.

nice sleuthing! i thought it was pretty and needed to know more. yeah, it does look like a univac thing!

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Re: What is this keyboard?
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 28 December 2020, 06:01:41 »
for future reference, DT has an identification thread and they can always give you an answer

oh nice. i wonder if gh should have this too. i offer this thread as a place for keyboard ID-ing

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Re: What is this keyboard?
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 28 December 2020, 08:08:14 »
It's not an IBM/Lexmark Model M15 :-þ
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Re: What is this keyboard?
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 28 December 2020, 20:36:54 »
It's not an IBM/Lexmark Model M15 :-þ

i don't know why you would mention that. I do not own an IBM/Lexmark Model M15 with numpad NOS.