KBK update for Saturday, 10th April
After Marylou Bassi-Dolmans got in contact with me regarding Clare and Pendar, I started investigating these brands anew. During my searching, I found a number of pages with details on Pendar’s capacitive keyboards, but did not get around to reading them, instead simply making a mental note of the summarised contents in the search results while I looked for more details on the history of the US Pendar. Having gone back to read up on this interesting new line of research, all those search results had vanished without trace. Even the browser history entries for prior searches found nothing. Sadly I have no recollection of what sites had those details, only that possibly it was all duplicates of the same material. It was a description of how Pendar in France—the buyout company—had set up a line of capacitive keyboards in France, something for which there is unfortunately no patent to examine.
Someone called Furieux Furet posted a photo of a single switch from a Pendar keyboard at Deskthority, and then—as so many people do—vanished without ever completing the investigation. There is not even a single photo showing the complete keyboard, and no attempt to investigate the switch workings. The switch with its external springs had a strong suggestion of being capacitive. Finally, a second keyboard has shown up with this switch, an unknown Goupil keyboard, this time depicted in considerable detail, but (from the photos to date) not identifiable as Pendar. Ricardo Guzzetti did indicate that Goupil was a Pendar customer, so it seems that this keyboard is one of theirs.
Hopefully more details will come to light one day. After sending messages to a number of ex-Pendar staff via a French social media site, not a single one has ever responded. Not one.
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