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Maple 122 key - MX Black - Terminal Keyboard Teardown

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 01:49
by bitemyweewee
Bought this little beauty off of ebay not long back for $18 inc postage. Should be a nice harvest for other things :)

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So many images!! I can't be botherd annotating all of them. I hope you all enjoy :)

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 02:02
by webwit
I think Muirium's iPad just melted.

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 02:39
by Muirium
It would have so crashed on this thread. Fortunately I'm on Yosemite developer preview on the laptop instead. Plenty of hokey things about a beta OS, but Safari's better behaved than back on Mavericks in full screen mode, conveniently enough…

Nice gallery by the way. I like those funny coloured skinny Costar stabs.

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 09:15
by pyrelink
Glad you posted this here, I probably would have chosen the best of the set and posted a link to the rest of the album at the end. Nice keyboard.

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 10:44
by scottc
Looks good. Instead of salvaging it for parts, why not just make a converter for it? It might speak XT, and in that case it Soarer's converter would be a match made in heaven.

Posted: 08 Jun 2014, 10:43
by bitemyweewee
Sorry about all the pics. I thought verbosity would be best ;)

I don't have a use for the keyboard unfortunately, I'm not a fan of the layout. I will likely salvage it to make my own 60% that I'll use for my laptop :)

Posted: 08 Jun 2014, 16:31
by Findecanor
Why do so few 122-key terminal keyboards group the F-keys into groups of four columns each like on a regular desktop keyboard? It makes so much sense!

Posted: 08 Jun 2014, 16:49
by Hypersphere
Findecanor wrote:Why do so few 122-key terminal keyboards group the F-keys into groups of four columns each like on a regular desktop keyboard? It makes so much sense!
Excellent question! I have seen a Model M-122 that had at least used a different color for the middle group of F-keys, but they were not separated into islands like on the Cherry board depicted here. There was certainly no shortage of space on the M or F 122s!