deskthority

Today a friend of mine showed me his work place, an agricultural research institute. We took a stroll through the cellars (or should I say dungeons, it was a huge maze of rooms and corridors) where they store the outdated equipment. In a particular messy room we spotted this nice keyboard which is part of some spectrometer (?). Since it sports an interesting layout (the arrows cluster in particular) and felt really nice I asked him to take a picture so I could show it to you guys.
I have no idea about the switches it uses, all I can say is that they felt rather linear.



It was the only interesting keyboard there btw, I was hoping for piles of kishsavers, model ms and fs.

lovely caps. hall effect maybe?

would be nice to see a pic of the switch without the cap.

My guess is an SMK/Maxi/NEC.

matt3o wrote:lovely caps. hall effect maybe?

would be nice to see a pic of the switch without the cap.

Likely not. Among other things, most hall effect KBs I've seen feature a different-looking spacebar.

My guess is SMK, but I really don't know.

Lovely keyboard, though! I really do like that font.

That arrow cluster is pretty unique, never seen sth. like this before

Nice lighting. I know what it's like creeping about in a store room trying to get a shot of the keyboards (who doesn't…) and that one looks suitably enigmatic, like a plot device in a movie.

Daniel wrote:That arrow cluster is pretty unique, never seen sth. like this before

The "arrow square" seems to have fallen out of favor over the years. I think the only kb I own with it is the IBM displaywriter.