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Amiga A1200 Mechanical Keyboard A1200.NET

£99.99 Ex. VAT

Amiga A1200 mechanical keyboard (also for Amiga A500) was developed by A1200.NET. The keyboard itself has been designed from the ground up and is fully compatible with the Amiga A1200, and Amiga A500 (with optional adaptor board) and is a direct plug-and-play replacement using the included ribbon cable for the A1200 and for Amiga 500 users the keyboard requires the optional Amiga 500 daughter-board, the controller mounts on the top right of the keyboard and connects via a custom U-shaped ribbon cable beneath the keyboard, then links to the A500 motherboard through a serial wire mirroring the original mounting location and ensuring perfect compatibility.

Designed into the new Amiga A1200 mechanical keyboard is a modular controller bay, different daughter boards can be added to adapt the same base keyboard to various Amiga models thus allowing DIY modules to be developed by individuals or hardware enthusiasts.

The keyboard is 100% compatible with the following:

Motherboards and adaptors:

Cases:

Keycaps:

 


 

Amiga A1200 Mechanical Keyboard Contents:

  • Metal Body Armor
  • ISO Layout
  • Space Bar Stabilizer and FPC Ribbon cable included
  • Keycaps NOT included (available as an option below)

 

 

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  • Top case including enhancements
  • Bottom case including enhancements
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  • Enhanced rear trapdoor + extra plastic holder DVI / VGA shaped hole.
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How are these brand new?
In 2016 840 Amiga users made it possible in supporting a Kickstarter to reproduce the Amiga 1200 case, the new cases are made using Injection Molding manufacturing technique to produce top and bottom shells as well as trapdoors and parts. The process implies the use of 3 new moulds, the first one is for the top shell, second mould for the bottom shell and last one for trapdoors and parts, all produced using brand new moulds.
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  • New Amiga Keycaps are compatible with Mitsumi Switches only!
  • Not compatible with Amiga 1000.
  What’s in the box
  • 96x Keycaps : Compatible with A1200 / A500 / A600 / A2000 / A3000 / A4000
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  • Top case including enhancements
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  • Set of screws
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ReAmiga A1200 Rev 1.5 Refurbishment Service built using a A1200 board the customer supplies as a donor*. The Re-Amiga A1200 is a reverse engineered board by John "Chucky" Hertell. and is a full A1200 board with some extras added which include:
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  • Fits in your current metal shielding**
  • WHITE PCB ONLY
  This is a build service using a donor board you provide or provide the needed parts to complete the build. We are able to provide a donor board if required, ask for further details.    Once ordered we will request a 10% deposit to secure the service and send the you the address where to send you A1200 donor board.   * Custom chips will be tested before hand, any custom chips which are faulty we will contact you and send a quote for the any faulty chips or parts. ** ReAmiga board does not come with any metal shielding.  
We reserve the right to cancel and refund any deposit made if we find an issues with securing any component or costs have increased to a level where building a unit becomes unavailable.
   
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