Computer Keyboards in Your Nation

[The Danish Confederacy]

What do your keyboards look like?
This, mate.

What is the predominant form of keyboard action for stationary keyboards and mobile ones?
I don't understand.

Is there a niche market for antique keyboards?
Ja.

[Anollasia]

What do your keyboards look like?

What is the predominant form of keyboard action for stationary keyboards and mobile ones?

...Typing?...I don't understand.

Is there a niche market for antique keyboards?

No.

[Chinese Peoples]

Clarification:

Action — the way in which the electrical signal is triggered. Known technologies are rubber dome, scissor switch, beam spring, buckling spring, &c.

[Conscentia]

Computers designed in Conscentia generally use programmable chorded keyboards, which can leave visitors to Conscentia confused when they try and use a computer here and can't figure out how to use the keyboard. Imported machines and keyboards generally come with some form of QWERTY layout, however this is rare as most Conscentians are accustomed to using chorded keyboards.

[Pane e Circhi]

Alphabetical Latin with accent button. You hold the accent button and type a vowel to put the accent on it (because Italian uses accents). The labels are also all in Italian.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

Conventional keyboards have largely been replaced by holographic haptic interfaces and direct neural uplinks these days. For applications where keyboards are necessary, most are still holographic.

Some exceptions are applications where the ruggedness and durability of a physical keyboard are necessary, such as many military apps and heavy-duty industrial devices, where installing a complex and sensitive holographic interface would be impractical.

[Thervingia]

The standard Thervingian keyboard is like a typical English keyboard, with additional two letters in the T and H keys.

[Kujuana]

WE use qwerty and Kujuana national format which is used by the older community and the military there is a cliché market for antique keybords

[Mejirland]

QWERTY for English and Gaelic and QWERTZ for German

The Mejiri keyboard layout is:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
A B D E F G H I J K
L M N O P Q R S T U
V W Y Z Í Θ X , .

[Petrolheadia]

[quote="Chinese Peoples";p="26444175"]What do your keyboards look like?

They're standard English QWERTY ones.

What is the predominant form of keyboard action for stationary keyboards and mobile ones?

Simple buttons or touch controls.

Is there a niche market for antique keyboards?

No. We prefer to buy new ones, as a typical Petrolheadian uses his or her keyboard heavily.

[Shalotte]

There are few computers in Shalotte, and little chance of this becoming a growth market any time soon. As such, no company in the world presently produces a keyboard tailored to Hebréden, which is something of a problem given that it has its own 21-character alphabet (similar in form, but not function, to the ancient 'Ogham' alphabet).

Those few Shalottes who use computers are thus forced to use a work-around:

• Write everything in English. English speakers are not hugely common in Shalotte, but the people using the computers tend to be multi-lingual anyway.
• Remap the keyboard to assign Hebréden characters to the existing layout via software. Some Shalottes go one step further than this and affix stickers with Hebréden characters to the keys.

[Sibiri-]

What do your keyboards look like?


What is the predominant form of keyboard action for stationary keyboards and mobile ones?
Buttons or Touch controls

Is there a niche market for antique keyboards?
No.

[Grand Britannia]

Simple QWERTY, really...

[Numoland]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
А Б Д Е Ф Г Х
И Ж К Л М Н О
П Р С Т У В З

[The Charming of the Reaper Crew]

We're using the standard QWERTY keyboard.

[Arkiasis]

QWERTY keyboards the most commonly used.

[Greater Southern Straya]

Computers are not that popular in Straya. Most people just have an abacus, and those don't have keyboards.

[Nooooooooooooooo]

Like this usually.





I KNOW MY STATS SAY I DON'T DO THIS STUFF, BUT FORGET THEM, OKAY?

[Creslonia]

What do your keyboards look like?

Standard QWERTY. Some mechanical and specialist keyboards have accents on the far right (like a numpad).

What is the predominant form of keyboard action for stationary keyboards and mobile ones?

Buttons and touch screen.

Is there a niche market for antique keyboards?

The antique keyboard market is actually quite well-established, with high levels of interest across all demographics and age groups.

[Byeolttang]

We used custom BKS standard for keyboards wich are as follows:
BKS1-Hangul Keyboard

BKS2-Hanja keyboard (example layout):

[Fostoria]

In Fostoria, keyboards are very similar to the US QWERTY keyboard.

Many keyboards use mechanical switches but cheaper ones use rubber domes.

Yes, there is an interest in older keyboards. Very old ones from the Socialist period are mostly Dvorak layout and are more desirable as collector items.

[Imperial Slovonia]

Slovonian uses a Cyrillic script. Most letters are ordered according to the equivalent Latin letters on a standard QWERTY layout, except Ч (ch), Ш (sh), Ж (zh), and Ъ (accent), which are placed in the spots for Q, W, X, and Y. Also, the Y and Z keys are flipped, because З (z) is used far more frequently than Ъ (accent).

[Eskaai]

ÁÉERTY with Í, Ó, Ú, Ź and Ć added as standard.
Format:
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! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 -_ += Éruk
Źek Á É E R T Y U I O P Ó Ú Vayjk
Kápul A S D F G H J K L Ź Ć Í
Tzare Ð Þ Z V B N M Ƶ ,. ? V Tza
Koun Ćaj -- Dsz Szpúr V. Ćaj V. Koun

Éruk= Enter
Źek= Tab
Vajyk= Enter
Kapul= Caps Lock
Tzare= Shift
V Tza= Right Shift
Koun= Control
Ćaj= Fn
Dze= Alt
Szpúr= Space

[Muktam]

What do your keyboards look like?
Most keyboards are american QWERTY keyboards, with Muktam letters in print-on or stickers. The Muktam keyboard layout supports both Muktam letters and uppercase Latin.

What is the predominant form of keyboard action for stationary keyboards and mobile ones?

Mechanical keyboards are still very common, although scissor switches are very common on portable and newer keyboard, as they are very transportable.

Is there a niche market for antique keyboards?
No, although occasionally some people will sell their used keyboards.

[Hatterleigh]

What does "Antique Keyboards" even mean?