My 1987 60% Apple Dremeled Keyboard: How and Why and Sorry

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9 min readJan 31, 2020

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This is a model M0115 Apple Extended Keyboard first sold in 1987 as an option for the Macintosh II and SE models:

Apple Extended Keyboard, Credit: Kevin Schoedel License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0

And this is what I am typing this article on right now:

Gabriel Wilkes

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Web Developer living in a suburb north of Tokyo. Passionate about startups, creating products, photography and design.

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