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In the 1980s, the Korean government presented its vision for the future as a world information and communications powerhouse. On January 28, 1981, the Minister of Science and Technology announced the relevant government policy, and from 1983 the government began to distribute educational computers aimed at fostering an information industry. The GoldStar Famicom-100 was produced in line with the government’s policy as a computer for education, along with other educational computers, such as the Samsung SPC-1000 and Sambo TriGem 30.
This is a keyboard, the input device, that was part of a GoldStar Famicom-100 set. When the product first came into the market, it didn’t support a keyboard character set other than English, so Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, could not be input. But the problem was resolved with the advent of this keyboard. This keyboard has a layout similar to present-day keyboards, with five rows of character keys arranged on the surface. The keyboard features English letters printed in the middle of the keys, along with Korean alphabet letters on the front side of each key. |
