Is there any date-code on the keyboard which would identify it as considerably later (ie. A3010 era) than the motherboard?
The normal A3000 keyboard has different coloured special keys, they are much more beige than on the A3010/A3020 and not as noticeably distinct from the alphanumeric keys, so I'd be surprised if this was a normal A3000 keyboard that just happens to have had green function keys added.
It probably doesn't have the red function keys as it is "not a BBC" - the BBC legend and Owl are missing from the A3000 ticket. Maybe they designed this keyboard colour scheme for overseas A3000s and adopted it later for the A3010, which is also "not a BBC" (though neither is the A3020 but that keeps the red keys).
I see the motherboard describes it as "A3000 International".
Wonder if a trawl through the Drawing Office listings would reveal more about this variant.
The normal A3000 keyboard has different coloured special keys, they are much more beige than on the A3010/A3020 and not as noticeably distinct from the alphanumeric keys, so I'd be surprised if this was a normal A3000 keyboard that just happens to have had green function keys added.
It probably doesn't have the red function keys as it is "not a BBC" - the BBC legend and Owl are missing from the A3000 ticket. Maybe they designed this keyboard colour scheme for overseas A3000s and adopted it later for the A3010, which is also "not a BBC" (though neither is the A3020 but that keeps the red keys).
I see the motherboard describes it as "A3000 International".
Wonder if a trawl through the Drawing Office listings would reveal more about this variant.
Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Fri Jun 07, 2024 11:31 pm