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Is this a vintage keyboard repurposed for the TV show? (From Silo, season 1)

After seeing the various Commodore keyboards in Alien: Romulus I'm wondering if these ones from Silo existed in the past too.

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Based on the key layout and shape of some of the keys, it definitely looks vintage.
- I kind of like the retro look. Considering the equipment in the silo needed to last hundreds of years, the retro look makes it seem more durable.
  
  Which is weird because modern LCDs with LEDs will outlast a CRT.
- Magnification beyond certain point is forbidden in the pact, I don’t know how the residents of the silo could repair modern computers.
  They are kept “in the past” both in technology and knowledge.
  Season 2 spoilers ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler In season 1 it is stated that they don’t know what stars are, in season 2 the same guy who studied “the lights in the sky” theorised about that the earth orbits the sun, thus, the population thinks that the sun orbits the earth.
  Also people don’t know anything about cryptography. :::
- The tech levels within the silos are purposely kept low. They also forbid things like pulley systems and other stuff that could potentially give them an advantage.
  Would've been nice if you would've stuck with show spoilers specifically btw...
- They don't want common plebs to have advanced technology. They are being raised to be submissive cattle
Vertical tab key on the left makes me think they tore the keyboard out of an IBM Selectric ( or similar 1960s electric typewriter as I have not seen one with beige keys). Image is too blurry to tell if the left shift looks right though.
If they didn't just put it in an enclosure they made then it's probably a terminal of some sort like a DECwriter, but not that cause it looks like it only came in black.
- In the context of the series, a terminal would make a lot of sense.
It looks very Commodore but aside from the odd caps on the corners, which may just be custom placed there, the biggest oddity would be the straightly aligned keys on the edges. On the older Commodore boards that share the general design of this one, the two bottom rows are usually slightly more aligned towards the left, compared to the top rows. Atari had some similar keyboard layouts like this but they generally looked different. Maybe some modern retro inspired replica.
That space bar is a mile long! Is that a Commodore keyboard?

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