Can you please help me to identify this keyboard

[maconkel_willi]

Hello,

i have found this keyboard in my old parts collection - but i can't identify it and it is so long ago i got it (1990s) so i don't remember anymore. Maybe Apple or Apple Clone related.... the chip is a Toshiba TMP8048P.

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Kind regards
Michael

[Chloe]

Based on the TMP8048P controller and the early 1990s timeframe, this is very likely not an original Apple keyboard. Apple typically used their own custom controllers by then. The 8048 was widely used in PC XT and early AT style keyboards and in many Apple-compatible clone keyboards. Without seeing the PCB layout or switch type, my best guess is a generic PC or Apple clone keyboard rather than an official Apple model.

[maconkel_willi]

Thank you for your infos.... i will research in this direction. I searched also for the type of the keycaps with the printing on the front-side.

[Muirium]

It's certainly not an Apple keyboard. The layout, however, is very Apple II.



It will be an Apple II clone's keyboard. I don’t know much about those, but they were a thing of the late 1970s through the early 1980s. This board will be that age, too. Everything about it says well pre-1990.

Flip it over and take a pic of the back. The PCB may be informative. The Toshiba chip is just one of many generic keyboard controller ICs of that era.