6150 keyboard - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Jan 2002

In a message dated 1/26/2002 3:39:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
vance(a)ikickass.org writes:

<< >   Well, I got irritated with the keyboard (ever try to use vi without
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  the Escape key) and jerked it apart.  Very gently.

 1)  I'm certain that it's re-badged OEM, not IBM-built.  All the screws,
  internal and external, are Phillips.  
 IBM's keyboards were always built by Lexmark.  Recently (a few years ago),
 Lexmark spun off their keyboard operation, which was swalllowed up by
 Unicomp.  This keyboard was built before IBM spun off Lexmark, which means
 it was built by IBM.

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  2)  It's not a double membrane, it's rubber
cups over a PCB, with foil
  inserts in the caps.  The traces on the PCB were covered with
  unidentified goop.  *Only* under the Escape key.  I dunno.  
 The mechanism in IBM keyboards is called a "buckling spring mechanism".
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 > 
I've two RT keyboards. One is buckling spring and the other has quiet keys 
and seems like a cheaper version. 

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