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Skidata

A nice Skidata keyboard with a layout combining 1800 and ortho – acquired by u/iyeetdog.

KBD.news
Published September 30, 2022

A Swiss Skidata was featured exactly one year ago, but this one, acquired by iyeetdog is even more interesting.

Horizontally, it may be considered a spacesaver because of the 1800 layout, but then BANG! – let's put a 15x5 ortho on top of that! :D

Just in case you need 75 extra keys (all relegendable) – or 63 if you exclude the function row part from that.

PCB made in Germany by GMK, the shell was manufactured in Austria.

More info in the Deskthority wiki:

https://deskthority.net/wiki/SkiData

Published on Fri 30th Sep 2022. Featured in KBD #97 (source).

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