Was Apple first to make 'isolated keys' keyboard?

[macdaddy5]

10 years ago, almost all keyboards had keys that touched each other, like this keyboard:
http://www.englishforum.ch/attachments/sale-wanted/8846d1253042047-wanted-mac-keyboard-not-flat-old-style-mac-old-keyboard-02-.jpg note: nothing is separating the keys except air

Apple and several other hardware manufacturers have been making keyboards where none of the keys touch each other but instead have a small plastic or metal separator isolating them. Here are some examples:
http://fplanque.com/media/dev/2009/apple-qwerty.jpg?mtime=1245445405
http://www.samsung.com/us/system/consumer/accessory/vg/kb/d1/vgkbd1500za/KBD1500_ZA_Back_PSD__1.jpg
http://www.dvice.com/sites/dvice/files/styles/blog_post_media/public/images/Automated-typewriter.jpg note: this is a FAKE typewriter, keyword "Guberman typewriter"

Does this have a name?
Was Apple the first to start doing this? If not, who did it before Apple?

 

[T5BRICK]

Does this have a name?
Was Apple the first to start doing this? If not, who did it before Apple?

Chicklet keys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard

From the Wikipedia article it looks like the idea has been around for a while.

 

[macdaddy5]

Thanks.

This article answers my question if anyone else was curious:

http://www.quora.com/Who-implemented-chiclet-keyboards-first

 

[PatriotInvasion]

Apple may not have been first, but they were the first to implement that style on a super popular product when the MacBook was released in the spring of 2006.

Man I loved my all black MacBook. If they come out with a black aluminum rMBP at some point, I'll have to get it.