Mine is from May of '83 or so, so it has the Panasonic keyboard, not
the Pratt-Read keyboard the earlier ones had.

jim

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , "roginator1" <roginator1@...> wrote:
>
> Hi...
>
> I had few OB8 keyboards in my studio...(One is stil here)
>
> I notice that not all OB8 have same keyboard.....
> in some OB8 are keyboards and keys same as : POLYSIX, Memorymoog,
> Prophet 600, Poly61........
>
> in other OB8s there are not just plastic keys..that keys are very
look
> like this from Polysix but have metal part under key..sticked with
glue
> and some little diference in design...(I found same keys only on
> Emulator II)
>
> bouth are from same manufacturer....
>
> send me a picture (of a key ..from bouth sides)...maybe I can
help...If
> its Polysix keyboard I have complet one working for
> sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> D
>