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Portable PCIII keyboard
Posted: 24 Jul 2013, 14:03
by Ostrich
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
Posted: 24 Jul 2013, 21:22
by Daniel
Nice keyboard! But that Caps-Lock
Posted: 24 Jul 2013, 23:38
by Daniel Beardsmore
That is one weird layout!
Posted: 25 Jul 2013, 00:57
by Muirium
I like the big shifts. Caps lock is right where it should be. Like on the original PC keyboard:
Less danger down there.
Posted: 25 Jul 2013, 01:25
by webwit
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!
Posted: 25 Jul 2013, 10:03
by JBert
Daniel Beardsmore wrote:That is one weird layout!
It's just a variant of the model F AT 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.
Posted: 25 Jul 2013, 22:43
by Daniel Beardsmore
Figures. I never did like the Model F layout.
Posted: 25 Jul 2013, 23:20
by Findecanor
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.
Posted: 01 Aug 2013, 12:02
by Halvar
German layout but AltGr is missing... I wonder how you enter @ [ ] on that keyboard... Alt + Ctrl?