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title: "New Keyboards"
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published_at: "2026-11-09T22:32:56+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-11-09T22:32:56+00:00"
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excerpt: "Keys of 1500s move, are soft gray rubber, use white characters and graphic symbols and black shift functions. Three 1500 keys occupy the same space as four ZX/TS keys. Markings are rearranged--primary character at top center, shifted character at bottom left, graphic at bottom right. TS2068 keys move, are hard white plastic with comfortable left-right…"
post_tag:
  - name: "TS 1500"
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    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts1500/"
  - name: "TS 2068"
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    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1500"
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  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
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    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
publication: "Syntax"
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  id: 10246
  title: "Syntax"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/syntax/"
volume: "4"
issue: "11"
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  - id: 26721
    title: "Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v4 n11"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/syntax-syntax-zx80-v4-n11/"
pages: "14"
pubdate: "November 1983"
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volumeissue: "v4n11"
---

# New Keyboards

Keys of 1500s move, are soft gray rubber, use white characters and graphic symbols and black shift functions. Three 1500 keys occupy the same space as four ZX/TS keys. Markings are rearranged–primary character at top center, shifted character at bottom left, graphic at bottom right.

TS2068 keys move, are hard white plastic with comfortable left-right dished tops, use black characters & graphics and show the symbol shift characters in white on black bands across the key bottoms. Key spacing is also 4/3 bigger than ZX/TS spacing. The 2068 offers two caps shift keys, a separate symbol shift key, a BREAK key (physically separate, but electrically another space key) and a long space bar.