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Gateway bundled or offered the AnyKey keyboards with most of their desktop systems from 1990 to 1995. The keyboard featured advanced programmability, making it possible for users to re-program the Anykey keyboards in unintentional ways.
Manufacturing of the AnyKey ceased circa 1995 and Gateway stopped offering them shortly thereafter. Maxi Switch, the actual manufacturer of the AnyKey, got into financial trouble and was bought by LiteOn in 1990 where it remains a subsidiary as of January 2006. Production of the AnyKey has not resumed by Maxi Switch, LiteOn, or any of LiteOn's subsidiaries.
The Anykey does not use the same distinctively loud buckling spring keyswitches of the older “battleship” keyboards, and is significantly larger, heavier, and more durable than most modern keyboards in addition to being serviceable (though some versions more serviceable than others; see above). The Anykey lacks windows and multimedia keys except for model 2194002-XX-XXX, shipped by Gateway at the beginning of 1996 with Windows 95, which had windows keys. This model works correctly in normal mode under Windows 7.
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