Apple Macintosh Keyboard M0110, Year 1984

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This keyboard is the original Macintosh (aka Macintosh 128k) keyboard, year 1984.

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Macintosh Keyboard (M0110) (year 1984) (photo by Muirium. http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/on-ergonomics-and-modifiers-t5837.html)

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The keyboard did not have cursor keys. Steve Jobs purposely had left them out of the original Macintosh keyboard to encourage software developers to make software with mouse control. Following Jobs's departure, Apple released the Macintosh Plus with the Macintosh Plus Keyboard M0110A which does have cursor keys.

The keyboard uses Alps SKCC series switches.[1] The switches are typically, if not always, cream. Caps lock uses a latching variant of the switch with a shorter slider; the keycap contains a raised stem to compensate.[1] The keycaps are thick and tall PBT with dye-sub legends.[2]

[2022-05-31 from https://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_M0110 ]

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