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Offline TheAngelicWolf

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What Switch Is This?
« on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:34:46 »
I have this relatively old Macally keyboard laying around and a few keycaps are missing. But I've been wondering, what switches are these?
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:39:41 »
looks like a slider over a rubber dome, which is what I expect of a mcally kb of this age. I think the keycaps are alps compatible though.
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:42:16 »
Is that an Apple keyboard?
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:46:20 »
Quote from: dorkvader on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:39:41
looks like a slider over a rubber dome, which is what I expect of a mcally kb of this age. I think the keycaps are alps compatible though.
Yeah I asked somewhere else and they said the same thing  ;)
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:47:42 »
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:42:16
Is that an Apple keyboard?
Yeah it is. I used to use the old eMacs and I remember plugging this keyboard into it. But it works fine for Windows.
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:51:21 »
Quote from: TheAngelicWolf on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:47:42
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:42:16
Is that an Apple keyboard?
Yeah it is. I used to use the old eMacs and I remember plugging this keyboard into it. But it works fine for Windows.

In that case definitely rubber dome.

Mac and PC keyboards are interchangeable - just that the older Mac keyboards had a couple of extra keys.  And Win/Alt are swapped around.
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:57:20 »
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:51:21
Quote from: TheAngelicWolf on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:47:42
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:42:16
Is that an Apple keyboard?
Yeah it is. I used to use the old eMacs and I remember plugging this keyboard into it. But it works fine for Windows.

In that case definitely rubber dome.

Mac and PC keyboards are interchangeable - just that the older Mac keyboards had a couple of extra keys.  And Win/Alt are swapped around.
I run into that whole Win/Alt nonsense all the time, I'm still not used to it.
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 23:02:35 »
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:42:16
Is that an Apple keyboard?

mcally has historically made a lot of stuff for apples. They are like assimilation technologies (and later kensington after they acquired them in the late 80s)

so techncially it's not an apple kb, but rather a KB for apple. Sort of like the matias today.
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 23:15:25 »
Quote from: dorkvader on Mon, 22 September 2014, 23:02:35
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 22 September 2014, 22:42:16
Is that an Apple keyboard?

mcally has historically made a lot of stuff for apples. They are like assimilation technologies (and later kensington after they acquired them in the late 80s)

so techncially it's not an apple kb, but rather a KB for apple. Sort of like the matias today.
What's the difference? :rolleyes:
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 23:19:41 »
An Apple KB is made by Apple itself. A KB for apple is a keyboard made by a third party manufacturer, which is designed for use with Apple computers.
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Re: What Switch Is This?
« Reply #10 on: Mon, 22 September 2014, 23:30:48 »
Quote from: user 18 on Mon, 22 September 2014, 23:19:41
An Apple KB is made by Apple itself. A KB for apple is a keyboard made by a third party manufacturer, which is designed for use with Apple computers.
Ohhhh, that makes sense.
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