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Offline sixty

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Commodore 2000 external keyboard
« on: Fri, 09 October 2009, 00:34:40 »


Can anyone tell me what switches or technology this one uses?
To me it looks just like a Model F AT... is it? Or did they just clone the design.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: Fri, 09 October 2009, 04:00:10 »
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Can anyone tell me what switches or technology this one uses?
To me it looks just like a Model F AT... is it? Or did they just clone the design.

Looks like the keyboard from the Commodore PC-1, a small form factor PC/XT clone. I bet it's just a regular rubber domes over membrane.

http://www.homecon.net/index.php/artikel/49-x86/138-pc1
http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/category/computer/pc1
http://cbmmuseum.kuto.de/cbm_pc1.html
http://www.museo8bits.com/wiki/index.php?title=Commodore_PC-1

As far as I know, in its last decade (1984-1994), Commodore made a very little amount of mechanical keyboards, using Cherry switches. The Amiga 1000 and the early Amiga 2000A are an example.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #2 on: Fri, 09 October 2009, 04:30:03 »
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To me it looks just like a Model F AT... is it? Or did they just clone the design.


The AT Model F's layout and physical appearance was often imitated, the capacitive buckling springs were never copied though.
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