JDL Topre board A JDL Topre posted by TeeN_TetriS .
KBD.news Published June 26, 2021
For those who love unfamiliar layouts.
[...] being Topre they already have a pretty nice feel despite them being probably around 2 decades old. Was thinking I’d have to give this thing a deep clean but looking behind the keycaps it seems to be near spotless aside from a bit of dust here and there Published on Sat 26th Jun 2021. Featured in KBD #32 (source ).
Related u/R009k saved a vintage Fluke 1720A Programmer Keyboard from getting thrown out.
A nice review of a Compaq Plus Portable (1983) by Dmitrii Eliuseev.
It seems Fujitsu made ALPS keyboards. An Oasys spotted by by
May_1 .
A pocket-sized chording typewriter with six keys by
Benjamin Livermore – from the 1850s.
This
TypeMatrix may be the first keyboard using the term "ortholinear". (Not the first ortho one ofc.)
My annual photo shoot of my (mostly vintage)
keyboard collection .
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