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original macintosh keyboard..but not vintage..
Posted by: chelseayr on 2022-12-31 08:26:29
rather its a mechanical&usb retake of it 🙂
https://qoda.studio/m0110

I know a separate keycap set would fix certain little things like the modifier key spellings tho so don't nitpick too much about the factory photos? ;-)
Posted by: Juror22 on 2022-12-31 09:29:12
Its cute'n'all (really cute) and a fair price for keyboards these days, but there isn't a lot of technical info on the page about keys, connectivity and the like, unless I missed it among all the reading-between-the-lines in the intro passage, or maybe a link. Did I miss it?

edit (I would really miss arrow keys, but there is definitely a use case for a minimalist keyboard)
Posted by: chelseayr on 2022-12-31 12:57:17
@Juror22 yeah I suspect that link is more of a groupbuy update kind of page rather than an actual specification page

and regarding arrow keys, as far as I can tell from a quick look on the web it seem that the original setup basically overlaid the arrowkeys onto the separately-provisioned numpad itself so I suspect 'yer usb someone' would had gotten a qmk/via programmed (being that seem to be a very common software especially for osx support too) numpad with custom-made legends and use the Fn key on the primary keyboard to access the arrowkeys on the numpad itself? this is just in theory as I have zero clue about the entire qmk/via software at all!

and just to further back that up for anyone else here who probably haven't ever seen pre-adb keyboards either I present you the apple numpad (aka m0120) that would had been paired with the apple keyboard (again aka m0110) itself
Posted by: LaPorta on 2022-12-31 13:20:31
Definitely need keys that spell out things like Shift, Tab, etc, as well.
Posted by: shadedream on 2023-01-13 14:12:48
Those were really nice and I almost jumped on the group buy for them but it took forever to deliver. A lot of delays. One of the options on it was a beige vintage style cerakote. It was just a kit, so no switches or keycaps, you just supplied whatever you wanted and soldered them yourself. Actually now that I think about it, it didn't come with a PCB either because it accepted the general standard "poker" style 60% PCB which there's a lot of options for already.

Firmware would depend on the PCB but generally QMK and your arrows etc could all be there on a layer wherever you wanted them to be.
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