This is the keyboard of my father's old "portable" PC. I found it on the attic along with the PC.
Seems to have original white ALPs. The cable is AT.
I screwed up the Z key as kid... sry
Portable PCIII keyboard
- Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
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That is one weird layout!
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
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Did you know that as a kid, I used that keyboard on my father's pc to play Hitchikers Guide to the Universe (the Adventure), KIng's Quest, and use Wordstar to make cassette tape inlays for my ZX Spectrum tapes full of, uh, demonstration software? Aaah, the mists of time. Now get off my lawn!
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- Location: Belgium, land of Liberty Wafles and Freedom Fries
- Main keyboard: G80-3K with Clears
- Favorite switch: Capacitative BS
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It's just a variant of the model F AT layout:Daniel Beardsmore wrote:That is one weird layout!

I guess this must have been designed when the first IBM Enhanced keyboards came around because they thought they could include F11 and F12 as a bonus.
- Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
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Figures. I never did like the Model F layout.
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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I think I have seen similar layouts more than once before. Same as Model F but with the function keys moved up.
There is an older type of Dolch keyboard that has this layout also - old, before the Cherry OEM keyboards.
There is an older type of Dolch keyboard that has this layout also - old, before the Cherry OEM keyboards.