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The Lincoln Keyboard (the rather unique keyboard of the Lincoln Writer, the terminal built for the TX-2 in 1959) incorporated a pair of those Soroban keyboard mechanisms, stacked one in front of the other ("The keyboard is actually two separate Soroban coding keyboards mounted on the same block."—p ...

Is there an accepted name for keyboards like this, the Datalux Space Saver/MEI T-15 and the Lincoln Keyboard which are laid out like two separate keyboards, each of 4 or 5 or so rows, stacked one in front of the other?

LISP and LISP Machines

Mostly a matter of trading off ()[] for []{} . Which also means that the keycaps have both.


SAIL .
Space Cadet.
Symbolics.
TI Explorer .
Xerox 1109 .
webwit's prototype Racal-Norsk .


Note that the Knight keyboard only had shifted parens. Same for the standard ...

It looks like nice work! For the benefit of lazy people, would you also consider adding, to the page for each physical layout, the scores achieved by the most standard QWERTY logical layout used on that physical layout?

an_achronism wrote: 04 Jun 2021, 17:58That's hasn't "just shown up", those have been listed for weeks, possibly months.

The fifth of April, to be precise. In the grand scheme of things that is still pretty "just".

A very similar-looking but not identical board has just shown up on eBay, being sold as NOS:

sun type-4-alike.jpg
It seems to be either a different variant of the Type 4, or a third-party replacement for one. Some more images:

[*] the underside label: underside label.jpg
[*] the connector: sun ...

Polecat wrote: 13 Aug 2020, 03:59 Link goes to the current home page.

The link to the article? https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct- ... story.html It works for me, on a couple of different devices, and for at least some other people. Try this archive.is link if you're still having trouble?

I found this 1990 Chicago Tribune article about PC keyboards by chance. [EDIT: try archive.is if the link doesn't work for you.] I searched and it doesn't seem to have been mentioned here previously so I mention it now. Sorry if I missed earlier discussions of it! Possibly interesting things include ...

It looks like it's a rebranded Datacomp with Futaba MA. Those keycaps are extremely distinctive, and I haven't seen them on anything else yet.

I did have the right thread, excellent. :D

But yes, thank you, it seems to be something very close to the DFK-777F in the wiki or the DFK-700FI that ...

Keyboard for left-handed people :?:

The 108 version is quite Lovely and I'm a Right Hander ;) .

It's really a keyboard for right-handed people, because the Model M is a keyboard for left-handed people. 35 years ago, when most MS-DOS users had scarcely heard of a mouse, the Model M was a ...

I hope this is the correct thread to mention things seen on eBay...

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Vintage-IBM-PC-Keyboard/264081504166

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/~vgAAOSwpLVcC93J/s-l1600.jpg

It's a switchable, third-party AT/XT keyboard. The sticker on the underside says "Supplied by WALTERS ...