Knowledge bookmarks
The following pages contain information about keyboards and switches that has not been documented on the wiki; the following links marginally improve the likelihood of the information being found again. Items may be relocated later if a relevant page is created.
Alps
- Retro Alps Switch — Olympia CD 102 LED desktop calculator with unusual Alps switches
- Alps SKCC Switches — Monroe 2805 printing desktop calculator with grey and black SKCC series switches; the chip dates suggest a manufacture date of early 1979
- Alps SKCL Green, new old stock with terminal sealant applied
Cherry
- Telco TA103, featuring Cherry MX switches with the non-standard shells seen in some “Aristotle yellow” switches
Cherry clones
- “Key World” Cherry MX clones
- “ProWorld” Cherry MX clones (includes click leaf animation)
Other
- Standard design luggable keyboard, with “Katano” switches
- Hosiden switches with black plungers (unspecified equipment, but nearly identical to Panasonic AG-A850 ALPS Mount, Complicated, Linear - deskthority with Hosiden switches with the normal colourless plungers
- AEG Olympia Carrera with Marquardt Series 6180 switches
- Fairlight CMI IIx - first pics — the page depicts a Fairlight CMI keyboard with keycap missing: the switches are Micro Switch SD Series (the part numbers are given in the service manual)
- Yantai Omron B3G-S clones
- Great Wall KBD5 keyboard (Yantai RA-1D based on PCB, which leads to a 1992 FCC ID JO6RA-1D belonging to Yantai Computer Corporation of China)
- BeeRaider keyboards with an exceptionally odd layout
- ITT ETL18 in some kind of control panel; only the second place where they have been sighted