Editing Strong Man

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'''Strong Man''' was a Taiwanese OEM manufacturer of keyboards who specialised in the Apple Macintosh. The Strong Man website referred to the company as "Strong Man Enterprise Co., Ltd." ("Enterprises" according to the FCC), but some keyboards use "Strong Man Electronics Co., Ltd."<ref name="NewSMK85">geekhack — [http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 The new SMK 85 is here!]</ref>

Strong Man produced keyboards for both [[Diatec]] and [[DSI]]. Early [[Filco]]-brand keyboards (those with short model numbers such as [[Filco FKB-101EB|FKB-101EB]]) were typically produced by Strong Man. After Strong Man closed down, Diatec switched to [[Costar]]; Costar-made keyboards form the [[Filco Majestouch|Majestouch]] and [[Filco Zero|Zero]] ranges. The Strong Man–manufactured Filco keyboards tend to have compact, horizontally inset function key rows.

Current evidence suggests that Strong Man did not make their own keyswitches, despite their claims to the contrary.

Strong Man product codes began with "SMK"; as such, Strong Man should not be confused with the Japanese manufacturer [[SMK]].

<!-- No idea how I came to this conclusion, but the Majestouch was introduced in 2004: http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/08/an-introduction-to-filco/ — the interview cites 3–4 years, but without a reference year
An interview with Diatec designer Carl Matsu suggests that Strong Man went bankrupt around 2007 or 2008<ref>keyboardlover.com – [http://www.keyboardlover.com/carlmatsuinterview.php Interview with Carl Matsu]</ref>, which coincides with the introduction of the Costar-made Majestouch range. -->The Strong Man website disappeared in 2008.

==Products==
*[[:Category:Strong Man keyboards|Strong Man keyboards]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://strong-man.com.tw/ Strong Man website at the Internet Archive]

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