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Bondwell 14 keyboard

Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 14:22
by nuhi
I just found this old Bondwell (still working) and was wondering what switches do we have here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ohyuuuxwyouwy ... .54.19.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6tl718ap9kwft ... 4.29.jpg?m
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mnociy39pun46 ... .54.55.jpg

Edit. links fixed

Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 14:38
by 002
Looks like Alps vintage tee mount?
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Alps_vintage_tee_mount

Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 14:57
by Muirium
Nice sphericals! Quite like the layout too.

Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 15:02
by 002
And how about that 'Q'...it's almost like it's asking someone to pay attention.

Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 15:05
by nuhi
002 wrote:Looks like Alps vintage tee mount?
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Alps_vintage_tee_mount
Thanks, it's mostly likely those. I bet the keyboard was originally german layout because it has those fancy stickers on few caps.

Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 15:20
by Halvar
The sphericals look very nice, but the layout seems one of the worst I've ever seen on a professional computer keyboard ...

Looks like they started out by somme pointy-haired boss saying: "OK, we need a full tenkey block, and the designers say that the board needs to be exactly X cm wide. Whatever you do, just fit it in!"

Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 15:36
by Muirium
All right, I should have said "Quite like the wild whimsy in the layout!" It's certainly no regular board.

Separate line feed, return and enter definitely get my vote though! There's plenty enough madness on show for some of it to be mistakable for genius. Well, by me at any rate…

Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 21:39
by 7bit
Maybe you should fix the links a bit more:

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Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 22:43
by rindorbrot
the alpha keys totally look like Round4 :)

Posted: 14 Aug 2013, 23:47
by 7bit
Yep!

Please notice the thick legends on the `' key. Some critizied them, but here you can see that they are historically correct.
:ugeek:

Posted: 15 Aug 2013, 00:58
by Broadmonkey
I have been wondering about Bondwell laptops for a while now, but have never found any for sale (or at least not at a price I could afford) Didn't know they made keyboards too, do you know from which computer it belonged? edit: nvm, I just looked at the headline.