Hello /maho/, do you like keyboards? They're your main method of interfacing with your computer and the Internet at large, most of you probably spend the majority of your day behind one, so let's talk about them!

Here is a keyboard I picked up recently, it's a Focus FK-2001 made in the year 1995. This is around the start of the proliferation of cheap personal computers, which obviously necessitated cutting costs. Keyboards are a major area where manufacturers cut costs, and thus, the late 90s and the early 2000s saw a deluge of cheap, nasty rubber dome over membrane keyboards.

This one is still a mechanical keyboard, however, just not a very good one. It eschews the nice switches made by Alps Electric found in older keyboards in favor of cheap clones which don't feel or sound nearly as good. The case is light and creaky and is held together by clips which snap off easily. The dust cover is pretty cool though, and I do really like the look of the keyboard, particularly the keycaps, the Ctrl, Shift, and Alt legends are red, green, and blue respectively, which was supposed to help users of WordPerfect, I believe.

All in all, a pretty mediocre old board, I'll just be taking the keycaps and putting them on a custom keyboard build, and that's about it.