Re:Keyboard Builders' Digest
by hakfoo on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:43AM
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It seems like there aren't a lot of "commercial" offerings.
Of small-scale/hobby projects, there was the GH-122, a long-passed project, and I think there was a board called the "Boston" in the 120% size class.
For commercial choices, the common examples are 122-key boards from Unicomp and other firms servicing the terminal market, and programmable POS boards like the Cherry G80-8113 and 8200 series. The old Northgate Omnikeys sometimes added an extra bank of a dozen function keys, and some models had interesting takes on the navigation cluster.
I know some people have used the Tipro modular/POS boards which can be daisy chained to the order of several hundred keys.
I personally ended up designing a custom PCB for a 130% board (normal 104 + an extra 10 keys on the left, in the IBM XT style, and an extra copy of the function row)
Of small-scale/hobby projects, there was the GH-122, a long-passed project, and I think there was a board called the "Boston" in the 120% size class.
For commercial choices, the common examples are 122-key boards from Unicomp and other firms servicing the terminal market, and programmable POS boards like the Cherry G80-8113 and 8200 series. The old Northgate Omnikeys sometimes added an extra bank of a dozen function keys, and some models had interesting takes on the navigation cluster.
I know some people have used the Tipro modular/POS boards which can be daisy chained to the order of several hundred keys.
I personally ended up designing a custom PCB for a 130% board (normal 104 + an extra 10 keys on the left, in the IBM XT style, and an extra copy of the function row)