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I just bought a used Gateway Keyboard RT3602 and i have some questions about it. 1. When was it made? 2. Is it mechanical?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Based on the logo, it would have been made somewhere between 1998 and 2003. It is almost certainly a membrane keyboard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  1. That thing has a PS/2 port. The port was designed in 1987 and became obsolet when USB (1997) was introduced. It has a lot of multimedia keys. They became common in later half of the 90s. Your keyboard was likely produced sometime between 1995 and 2000.

  2. It's probably a rubberdome. You can easy check that by levering a key cap out. They are only clammed in and can be pushed back in again.