Olivetti ANK 25-102

[seebart]

Since all this has been covered before let me make this short, this is the rubberdome Olivetti ANK 25-102 in Swiss QWERTZ with blue dyesubs on PBT from 1986. Keyfeel is similair to 45g Topre with a very short keytravel, quite nice in this massive case with the quite heavy metal plate. The keyboard speaks PS/2 and has a SDL connector. I love the instructions for the feet on the back of the case. Enjoy the pics.

You can get all the technical infos here:

wiki/Olivetti_ANK_25-101

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[macboarder]

Oh my word, those legends are delightful.

[Khers]

Never mind the legends, look at those wonderful random walkers!

Though, after looking at the flip-out feet instruction, the random walkers are suddenly only my second favorite part of this keyboard.

[seebart]

The keycaps are really the best part for me. And the fact that it's PS/2 ready to use 30 years later is pretty cool, it's a very solid daily driver. This is what the Olivetti M450 looked like:

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[vivalarevolución]

vsev had one of these at his place when I visited in Paris. I actually enjoyed it so much that I swapped out the Novatouch to use the Olivetti. I think a comparison to Topre 45g is an apt comparison. The keycaps also add to the typing experience, they are hearty and low profile.

[seebart]

That's quite a story. Picking up an Olivetti ANK 25-102 in Paris from a fellow DT'ler.

[t!ng]

For me the ANK 25 is a product of art. Weird that the left ALT is red?

I appreciated the younger brother, ANK 27, in my thread:

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[vivalarevolución]

That's quite a story. Picking up an Olivetti ANK 25-102 in Paris from a fellow DT'ler.

Oh, I just used it during my stay, there was no transaction involved.

[002]

Nice pics, seebart!
This reminded me that the two 101s in my possession have a distinctly different feel. From memory, the one I got from NL was much snappier to the one I was using as my daily driver for a while there. I'll have to dig it out and do another comparison. This is the one:



An old pic of my daily driver board (this is the one I used for the wiki pics):

Spoiler:

[seebart]

This reminded me that the two 101s in my possession have a distinctly different feel. From memory, the one I got from NL was much snappier to the one I was using as my daily driver for a while there.

Interesting, both mine are quite similair in feel, but it's been a while since I used my first ANK-102. Possibly there is some deterioration after thirty years, I'll have to get my ISO one out for comparison also.

Oh man those blue/red stickers look soo nice on that ANK-101 of yours...

[002]

I have to wonder if the stickers were some factory option or third party. It bothers me that they don't align nicely with the number row or F-keys but still cool none-the-less.
I think that this one from NL that webwit helped me to get was well looked after. It even still has the box and the plastic cover after all so I wasn't too surprised when I noticed the difference with my other board.

The keycaps on this keyboard are something else man. I don't think I've ever seen such substantially beefy and well-done dye-sublimated caps on any other keyboard.

[seebart]

I've never seen any other ANK-101/02 with stickers like yours, possibly for some third party software. Regardless, they look awesome. The dyesubs are sublime on these, I know there are certain Cherry boards that have similarly nice dyesubs. I'm pretty sure t!ng managed to find an ANK-102 in the Kleinanzeigen recently, I'm sure he'll post some pics for us.

[Chyros]

Jeez, those legends are pretty amazing Oo . Olivetti really had a blue thing going on too, didn't they? xD

[002]

I've never seen any other ANK-101/02 with stickers like yours, possibly for some third party software. Regardless, they look awesome. The dyesubs are sublime on these, I know there are certain Cherry boards that have similarly nice dyesubs. I'm pretty sure t!ng managed to find an ANK-102 in the Kleinanzeigen recently, I'm sure he'll post some pics for us.

I have a set of Olivetti Cherry dye-subs (in ES layout, IIRC) and they are also very, very nice.
Hoping t!ng posts pics -- I can't get enough of the ANK 25-10X

[seebart]

Chyros if you ever come across one of these in at your recycling place don't pass it up even though it's a rubberdome.

Hoping t!ng posts pics -- I can't get enough of the ANK 25-10X

Same here, I'll add some pics of the ANK-102 layouts to our ANK-101 wiki page when I get time.

[002]

Jeez, those legends are pretty amazing Oo . Olivetti really had a blue thing going on too, didn't they? xD

They certainly did! Such a tasteful yet subtle change. Not as jarring as the HP-inspired "Red Alert" (which I also love). Just the right amount of pizzazz!

Same here, I'll add some pics of the ANK-102 layouts to our ANK-101 wiki page when I get time.

Cool -- I think we might be able to get away with having pages for each major iteration -- e.g. 'Olivetti ANK 25 series', 'Olivetti ANK 27 series' or something. I'll have a look at how other pages with regional layout variances were done so we can amalgamate them nicely without specifically referring to the 101.

[Chyros]

Chyros if you ever come across one of these in at your recycling place don't pass it up even though it's a rubberdome.

I do have an Olivetti rubber dome, but it doesn't have quite this kind of legends xD . I showed it briefly at the end of my dome with slider megareview. Pretty good for typing, actually .

[t!ng]

Hoping t!ng posts pics -- I can't get enough of the ANK 25-10X

Be sure of it =)

Edit: I think I have a problem.

[seebart]

Ugh, different fixed connectror??! That's NOT what it looks like on mine. Hmm. But it is the ANK-102 right?

[t!ng]

Yes definetely:/

[seebart]

Then my guess is it also speaks PS/2. Strange that Olivetti would have variations. I'd still like to see some more pictures of the actual keyboard please.

[t!ng]

I find it hard to capture the blue font with my Smartphone.
Anyway here is a first glance:

[t!ng]

I just noticed.... There are 2 ESC keys on it:/ ???

[Wodan]

Nothing closes fullscreen porn faster than pressing ESC while holding down ESC.

[Khers]

Nothing closes fullscreen porn faster than pressing ESC while holding down ESC.

[seebart]

I just noticed.... There are 2 ESC keys on it:/ ???

WOT? You got the super ESC version t!ng ?!? Looks great though, thanks for sharing.