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First post, by Luckytape

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I need help finding a white machanical keyboard that I owned between 2001 and 2009. I want to know which brand and model it was. It looked exactly like the keyboard in these images. It had a hard white plastic case, a white wrist rest, a five pin DIN connector exactly like the one in the image with a telephone coil like wire and keys that made a clicking sound while typing. The back of the keyboard was also in hard white plastic. You can see the brand and model number in these keyboard images but I am not sure which one I had. I do not know why but the connector of this keyboard in the images is also PS2. So can you please help me find the exact brand and model of the keyboard image that I have in my mind.

Reply 1 of 8, by HanSolo

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The looks reminds me a bit of the Chicony KB-5312. But that is also a cheap one with rubber switches, so no clicky sound.
DIN instead of PS2 in 2001 sounds strange to me but I'm not an expert on keyboards.

Reply 2 of 8, by Horun

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The FCC id of KB in 4th picture leads to Samsung but picture 5 looks like a Keytronic to me, some of them had that phone coil type cabling and so did Vtechs (Laser, Leading Technology)....
Note: just because you owned it in 2001 does not mean it was a 2001 production part, could have been a late 1990's
added: picture of my Keytronic. Those wrist rests were available as an add-on. Note the KB is much brighter white than my picture (is a dark room).
Here is a better picture from Ebray.... those go for about $25 + shipping.....
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Kk4AAOSwLD1jm5ja/s-l1600.jpg

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 3 of 8, by Luckytape

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I feel the connector of this keyboard in the images has been replaced from a "five pin DIN" connector to a PS2 one or probably the whole cord has been replaced as the keyboard looks a pretty late 90's one and the purple PS2 connector gives the feeling that it has been replaced from a five pin DIN connector. I found the FCC ID of this keyboard. It is a Samsung SEM-C19 from 1998. Below is the image of the FCC ID.

Reply 4 of 8, by Luckytape

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Does anyone know if this keyboard I am discussing about is a machanical or rubberdome keyboard ?

Reply 5 of 8, by Errius

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These keyboards were everywhere in the early 2000s.

Circa 2008 I got given 30 boxed Keytonic PS/2 keyboards from a company clearing out inventory. I kept three and sold the others. They were pretty crappy, all failed after a few years of use.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 6 of 8, by Luckytape

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Errius wrote on 2023-01-09, 14:50:

These keyboards were everywhere in the early 2000s.

Circa 2008 I got given 30 boxed Keytonic PS/2 keyboards from a company clearing out inventory. I kept three and sold the others. They were pretty crappy, all failed after a few years of use.

Do you still have them ?

Reply 7 of 8, by Errius

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No, they're long gone. I'm still using keyboards from that era but they're mostly Compaqs and HPs. I open them up and wash them once or twice a year (typically when a drink gets spilled on them) and they're still going strong. (I'm annoyed that modern computers no longer have PS/2 ports.)

The KeyTronics were just low quality.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 8 of 8, by dionb

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Errius wrote on 2023-01-10, 16:50:

No, they're long gone. I'm still using keyboards from that era but they're mostly Compaqs and HPs. I open them up and wash them once or twice a year (typically when a drink gets spilled on them) and they're still going strong. (I'm annoyed that modern computers no longer have PS/2 ports.)

The KeyTronics were just low quality.

KeyTronics were among the best quality rubber domes out there (only beaten by the likes of the IBM Enhanced Keyboard 'Soft Touch' aka rubber model M), with individually weighted keys. Sort of like a poor man's Topre.

Of course they were nowhere near as nice to type on as buckling spring keyboards, and nowhere near as good for gaming as short-travel Cherry MX-style switches, but you could do much, much worse in terms of jellyfish-prodding.