*-* On {09 May 98 08:24:31}, Jack Stein wrote to Roger Nelson *-*
*-* Concerning: am I reading this right? *-*
JS>>> No, this is a Gateway 120 Anykey keyboard from around 1991-92.
JS> My next PC will have this
JS> keyboard hooked to it, unless I can find a good equivilant keyboard.
JS> I wish I knew who made this one, I'd surely recommend it if I knew who
JS> made them for Gateway.
My almost-2-year-old Gateway keyboard (standard, not AnyKey) was
manufactured by Maxi Switch. Check the underside of yours and see if the
manufacturer is identified there. If not, check the FCC ID number there.
If the first three characters of the FCC ID are "D7J", then yours is also
a Maxi Switch. If not, the FCC has a Web site (although I don't have the
URL) cross-referencing FCC ID numbers with equipment manufacturers. The
first three characters of the FCC ID identify the manufacturer, so if you
can locate the site you should be able to identify the manufacturer that
way.
There's another possibility. If you have a Gateway Customer ID
number, you can call their Add-On Sales department and inquire about
buying one of their current AnyKey keyboards. Their current version has
124 keys instead of the 120 that yours has (gotta have those special
"Brand X" OS keys, after all :-) ), and there's no guarantee that it's
made by the same manufacturer as yours, but it might at least be worth
investigating.
Ken Whiton
... Bash any key, and put this puppy out of my wife's misery.
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