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Mitsubishi Topre short-throw

Mitsubishi Topre short-throw posted by Buzanoff.

KBD.news
Published April 25, 2021

According to the Deskthority Wiki, Topre short-throw keyboards are compact layout, low profile, shortened travel (short-throw) keyboards produced by Topre for the OEM market and adopted by various companies such as Mitsubishi and CTCSP.

They use a smaller variant of the Topre capacitive switch. The known variants of this board have either PS/2 or SUN connectors.

Published on Sun 25th Apr 2021. Featured in KBD #23 (source).

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