Date   : Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:29:17 +0000
From   : public@... (Daniel Beardsmore)
Subject: Wong's Electronics as keyboard manufacturer

Type 2 is SMK-branded. SMK is a Japanese company, but I don't know where 
their keyboards were made in 1984. The Futaba switches were probably also
Japanese-made. I have no idea about PED as, whoever and whatever they were,
they've fallen off the face of the earth.

Most of these companies left the keyboard market years ago.

On 2013-12-16 10:17, nicola giacobbe wrote:
> Really interesting,
> I believed the BBC micro was an all-british micro (apart from some chips,
of course).
> 
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:19:30 +0100, Daniel Beardsmore <public@...>
wrote:
>> There's an AWC keyboard at the bottom of this page:
>> http://atariage.com/forums/topic/105170-600800xl-keyboard-variants/page-2
>>
>> Notice that there's an AWC monogram on the PCB.
>> That's the exact same monogram that appears on the Type 1 (Futaba) and
Type 4 (SMK) keyboards:
>> http://wouter.bbcmicro.net/pictures/computer/keyboard/index.html
>>
>> Close-up of my Type 1 branding:
>> http://deskthority.net/wiki/File:BBC_Micro_Type_1_--_Acorn_branding.jpg
>>
>> Until now I've just presumed that the monogram represented somebody at Acorn.
>> I just dug up Wong's Electronics again -- take a look at their logo:
>> http://www.wongswec.com/
>>
>> Whoever AWC were, they seem to be related to Wong's Electronics, and both
are in Hong Kong. Wong's logo contains a modified monogram with the strange
"A" shape replaced with a "W" for "Wong's".
>> So we know that the Type 1 keyboard was made by AWC/Wong's of Hong Kong,
not Futaba. The Type 3 keyboard ("PED") is unbranded. The Type 2 keyboard
is SMK branded.