saw a weird thing at the thrift shop?

Just got back from the thrift shop with a couple Genny games. While there I found a black keyboard that says SEGA on the top left corner. The plug appears to be PS/2 for a normal PC and there is a windows button on the keyboard where it should be?

It was 3 dollars and I passed thinking it might be a common keyboard that sega was cashing in on?

I cant find any info on a sega KB other then the DC one? It looks kinda like a Tetradrive KB although the sega logo is in the oppisite corner and there is a windows key?

Should I go back after it? :thumbsup:

 

Maybe it was one for Phantasy Star Universe?

 

no that looks way newer

This one looks like its from WIN95/98 days. Its VERY close to the tetradrive KB. Any idea of its value if it IS a Tetradrive?


UPDATE: I went back and bought it just to be on the safe side. Here is a pic of the keyboard ^^

 

A Terradrive keyboard is pre Windows 95 and has Japanese keys on it. That Keyboard is obviously american, does it have a sticker on the bottom?

 

Look like a keyboard to control a kind of arcade cabinet (something only the technician can see)

 

Seems like a Saturn keyboard to me if there was one in the US.
I'd be interested in the bottom sticker as well, esp the serial.

 

On the bottem there are 2 stickers. 1 Looks VERY aged and the other is newer. The newer sticker is a white rectangle that only has a long bar code on it. I have seen these before at used PC stores they sell bulk keyboards in a BIN and slap these crappy little stickers on them.

The older one holds the secrets me thinks. Its kinda fading but I can read it. It says as follows:

FCC ID: F2QKT95104
Model NO: SCORP104PB
S/N K611036599

Thats really asll it says. I cant find ANY info or similer pictures looking around on the net and there are nothing anywhere near like it on Ebay?

Could it be a prototype keyboard from a possable US tetradrive type setup?

 

Im thinking its a arcade board as well. It dosent seem to be a saturn keyboard as in japan they released that adapter so that you could use a standard keyboard on the saturn.

Why not just use those in america as well?

 

Hmm... I've seen pictures of a black SEGA-branded keyboard being used with the Saturn. Also, the Saturn has the PS2-to-Saturn keyboard adapter, so maybe they figured they could make a more useful keyboard by making it a standard PS2? Just throwing ideas around.

That does look different from what I remember, though. A dev item seems likely.

 

(Sorry for the double-post.)



It looks like the same keyboard and it's shown plugged into the PS2 adapter

 

Its not the same, mine dosent have that recess at the bottem right and mine does have top edged recessed corners.

I thought this looked odd as it was with several Genny games some of which I hadent heard of without cases or real lables >_> (all sports games though so not a big miss if they were protos/betas)

 

:lol: It is the same, the picture is from a magazine so the scan has missed the centre of the magazine. Still nice useful and sexy item.

 

your right! nice to know what it is ^^

However that mag is not in English, does anyone have any scans about it in english?

Thanks for the help btw!

 

Hey, you have that keyboard too! I got that in an saturn pack from ebay. I think its a preaty cool keyboard. Mine came in Shink Rap and a Cardboard box. Does anyone know the value of it?

This is my third post becasue I just lurk here.

 

Nice find!

 

What, about the Netlink? I think most people's memories are that the thing sat around, unsold, in locked glass retail display cases for years after the Saturn hardware came off the market. Nanoseq's pictures notwithstanding, none of those items were ever sold together in one package that I'm aware of. I'm the biggest Sega fanboy there is, and I didn't even know there was a Saturn mouse until I bought one this year. I'm not surprised that Mic didn't know what to make of the keyboard.

Apropos of nothing? I've always wanted to code up a central office simulator that would allow two Netlink users to connect without incurring long distance charges, since the Saturn software didn't generally support real Internet play. I suppose a VOIP setup that supports data makes that idea obsolete at this point.

 

I wonder why they released a Saturn->Keyboard adapter AND a Sega branded keyboard in the US while in Japan they just sold simple Saturn-Keyboards.

 

I think at the time, home PC usage was much more widespread in the United States than in Japan. It was much more likely for a dirty yanqui to have a PS/2 wired keyboard lying around the house.