Weird yellowing of Amiga keyboard
 

Hello,

I've noticed on Amibay this post for an A1200:
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8554/sam1878z.jpg

It if funny seeing how whole different rows of keys have the plastic color decayed while others much less to none.

How is it possible? Different production quality? Hard to believe on the same keyboard.

Someone has been swapping key caps hence the inconsistent colouring.

One option is to buy a brand new white Italian A1200 keyboard:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...oducts_id=1047

I disagree, this happened to my A1200 that I have from new as well.

small keys near Enter and Z are blank

It is possible that the keycaps were from several batches. I've seen A500 keyboards like this too.

Thats normal on US keyboards.

All of my UK A1200s have those blank keys too...

i have seen this on lots of systems,even where the keyboard is white and the case is going yellow.

Thought so, :). Trust me some languages use them.

Just another C= cost cutting measure.. :-) No need to produce separate switch trays with large left shift + return keys when only two keymaps specified them. Everyone else in the world had the small shift + return.

the only explanation there for the yellowed keys in that pic is that those keys comes from a different batch of bad quality plastics

in my point of view the original A1200 done by commodore comes generally with bad quality plastics....tends to turn yellow in a few time.....but the new set of A1200 done by escom comes with a much better white plastic much more resistant to wear yellow