What is your first mechanic keyboard?

Leopold FC200 with brown switches.
Rafen
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Unread post05 Jul 2012, 11:47

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Rafen
 
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Location: Ohio, U.S.A.
Main keyboard: Poker w/ browns
Main mouse: Logitech Performance MX
Favorite switch: MX Brown
 
1st: Das Keyboard II (modified Cherry G80-3000) Blue MX
2nd: Filco Majestouch Bluetooth with Brown MX
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Unread post05 Jul 2012, 14:08

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Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Main keyboard: HHKB Pro 2 w/blank caps
Main mouse: Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 8000
Favorite switch: Topre 45g
 
First was a Ducky TKL with blues, only got rid of it a month or two ago (after having been through many other boards)
GeorgeStorm

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Main keyboard: Poker with blacks
Main mouse: Zowie EC1 Evo
Favorite switch: Blacks at the moment, but wanting something new
 
 
First up was a Model M, and I used it for ~15 years.

A second was acquired as the first developed issues. A chance acquirement of a Wang 724 led me down the road to my current set (NOT a collection... I use them!). 2x 1391406, M13, Model F AT, Boscom 122, Wang 724, AT102W, TVS Gold, G80-3000, 2x Cherry G80-1800, a Unitek and and IBM LPFK.
InSanCen

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Main keyboard: IBM M13
Main mouse: MX518
Favorite switch: Buckling Springs/Cherry Blues/Black Alps
 
Commodore 64, new :-)
Then Apple II

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Unread post05 Jul 2012, 18:32

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Location: france
Main keyboard: Too many
Main mouse: CST trakball
Favorite switch: red ?, maybe topre, well no, black... Or brown???
 
Just made the switch this year from dome. Got a Xarmour U9BL Cherry MX Browns used from a forum, and just got a wasd cluster set of WASD keycaps as well.

Love it, next I either want a ducky shine or KBT Pure.
ranviper

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Location: United States
Main keyboard: i-rocks 6260
Main mouse: Razer DeathAdder
Favorite switch: MX Brown
 
Filco MJ2 MX Red.
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Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 2 MX Red
Main mouse: Alienware TactX
 
Das Professional with Blues
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Unread post14 Jul 2012, 02:25

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Location: Chicago | USA
Main keyboard: KMAC Ti 62g Clears
Main mouse: Razer DeathAdder Black
Favorite switch: Ergo-Clears
 
 
Whatever came with original Mac's? Think they were ALPS.

From there IBM Model M.....still got it
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Unread post14 Jul 2012, 03:55

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Location: USA- East Coast
Main keyboard: Chicony 5181- Blue Alps/Montereys
Main mouse: M705
Favorite switch: Blue Cherry, Alps, Buckling Springs
 
Since I am a new kid on the block. Mines is the Noppo Choco Mini Brown MX (wanted Red, they had ran out).

If I was from a richer family, I might have had Model M.
bebuxe

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Main keyboard: noppoo choc mini brown MX
Main mouse: N/A
Favorite switch: red? Have not tried them all.
 
My brother and I bought a used IBM PC with its original keyboard, back in the mid 1980s. Unless, does anyone know what type of switches were in an Atari 800, that predates the PC.
Joe221

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Main keyboard: Tesoro Durandal
Main mouse: Logitech MX-1100
Favorite switch: MX Brown
 
I've just got my first couple of mechanical boards, an RM Nimbus with ALPS buckling springs, a Dell AT102W with black alps and a Chicory with fake cherry whites.

I'm using the RM as my daily driver and love it even though it's hideously loud.
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Main keyboard: RM Nimbus
Main mouse: Logitech G500
Favorite switch: Not tried enough to say yet
 
Ducky 1087 mx browns
boost

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Main keyboard: filco rkl
Main mouse: g700
Favorite switch: cisco
 
A Filco Majestouch 2 with Browns. It's also the only keyboard I have so far, but I am trying to change that by getting a Poker (unfortunately no Reds wherever I look). Will be my first one with ANSI Layout, so I can finally spend some money on keycaps :)
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Unread post17 Jul 2012, 18:16

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Location: Germany
Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch-2
Main mouse: Razer DeathAdder
Favorite switch: MX-Brown
 
WASD V1 Custom with browns
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Unread post17 Jul 2012, 18:18

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Location: Wisconsin
Main keyboard: WASD V1 w/ Browns
Main mouse: Mx518
Favorite switch: Browns or Reds
 
 
WASD Rosewill Rosewill
Mine will be a HPE 87 in Cherry MX Brown once it gets here next week hopefully, can't wait to see the difference after using a $10 Logitech board for years. :ugeek:
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That color is actually interesting, i was thinking of painting my ortek mck-84 with orange or black :P
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Main keyboard: HHKPro2
Main mouse: iintellimouse explorer 3.0
Favorite switch: topre/mx
 
First one I got was a Filco tenkeyless with browns, I still have it, I use it for my game pc.

Tried lots of different stuff since, the little one survived everything though.
grilkip

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Main keyboard: Filco 87 browns
Main mouse: Logitech something
Favorite switch: Still figuring that out
 
An IBM Model M. I knew nothing about the pricing for these so I offered a very good price! For the buyer.
Looked like it had been in a coalmine or something as it was pitchblack with soot, took me 12 hours to clean it.
Swede

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Main keyboard: KBC Poker
Main mouse: Mionix Naos
Favorite switch: Cherry Red
 
Qpad Mk-50 with mx red, was only under 70eur
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Unread post06 Aug 2012, 21:41

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Main keyboard: QPad MK-50
Main mouse: Razer Lachesis
Favorite switch: Cherry MX Red,blue and White Alps.
 
Das model 2 represent!

Rocked that thing until I got my poker last week... how long ago was the Das II released? 5 years?

I got it right at release, the funny thing was I had previously wanted the Das 1, I was disappointed that it didn't have the "individually weighted switches" of the Das 1, if only I'd known what good fortune it was to get the model 2 instead.

Glad to have spent my time with the blanks, but seriously want the Miami DS group buy to go through so I can throw that set on the Das.
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Main keyboard: Das II
Main mouse: Razer Copperhead
Favorite switch: Blue's
 
1st: QuickFire Pro (brown) : returned due unlevel board and BIOS problems.
2nd: QuickFire Rapid (blue) : returned due to bad space bar.
3rd: Filco Multicam (black) : keeping (space bar isn't perfect, but better than the QuickFires')
4th: QuickFire Rapid (red) : returned due to bad space bar.
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Main keyboard: Filco Multicam TKL (Cherry MX Black)
Main mouse: Logitech G5
Favorite switch: Cherry MX Black
 
My first mechanical keyboard was a Benq, indeed a rebranded Acer with Acer ALPS (I have discovered this detail not too much time ago). I got the keyboard from a junk pile at my university, so I got it for free. That was back in 2007. This keyboard didn't last too much.

Last year, a friend of mine found a Model M in the garbage. It was in quite good condition and he gave it to me for free. To thank him, I gave him a Dell rubber dome (the one with the fancy shape and a card reader), it was decent, but not great. After that, I fell in love with buckling spring. Best exchange of my damn whole life :P
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Unread post08 Aug 2012, 21:11

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Location: Spain
Main keyboard: IBM Model M, ISO layout
Main mouse: Logitech Trackman Marble
Favorite switch: Buckling spring, MX Blue
 
A Leopold tkl black otaku with brown switches. Sold this recently for a new board.

Next was a near new Leopold tkl white otaku with blue switches. I love this board and still have it. Secured a buyer at work for this one when new board gets here.

Ordered a black blank HHKB2 pro. If I hate it I'll sell it and buy a filco MJT TKL ninja with mx blues. Really wish unicomp would make TKL.

There are now 5 mechanical keyboards at my work place because of me.
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Main keyboard: HHKB2 Pro Black
Main mouse: Logitech G500
Favorite switch: Topre
 
My first was a Filco MJ2 TKL with browns. I still have it, but it is outfitted with ergo clears now!
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Unread post09 Aug 2012, 06:19

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Joined: 20 Feb 2012, 12:47
Location: Breckenridge CO USA
Main keyboard: Poker
Main mouse: CM Storm Spawn
Favorite switch: Cherry MX Ergo Clear
 
Mine was a G80-3000 with MX Blues
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Unread post09 Aug 2012, 06:34

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Main keyboard: G80-5000, Realforce 88UB
Main mouse: Sensei
Favorite switch: Topre, Ergo Clears
 
I actually had a Model M for a long time when I was young, then got rid of it long before I became enamored with mechanical keyboards later. Man, do I feel foolish. I had no respect for what I had. :oops:

My first MKB that I truly appreciated was my current Rosewill RK-9000, which I love tremendously.
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Location: Connecticut
Main keyboard: Rosewill RK-9000
Main mouse: Logitech Performance MX
Favorite switch: Cherry MX Blue
 
 
Image Rosewill RK-9000 - Cherry MX Blue  |  Logitech Performance MX
I used a model M a few times back it the day( at a family members house), the first keyboard i owned was on an acorn A3010 i think it was rubber dome but it was a good rubber dome.

Unfortunately it was then a chain of crappy keyboards (apart form one cherry rubber dome that was quite good) until i got my black widdow, things have just been getting better and better since then.

EDIT

the acorn was good as it had a plate! and not like current rubber domes that use the thin and cheap case so they bend and flex like a gymnast.

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Pics/A30102E.jpg

EDIT 2

Check out that layout i had forgotten that! Ctrl where it should be !!!

EDIT 3

Looks like it is not a dome after all

http://www.classicacorn.freeuk.com/32bi ... base3.html

that's a spring over a membrane ( capasative ?) i see no rubber in site, any of you vintage boys know what the hell is going on there e?
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Posts: 169
Joined: 11 Apr 2012, 16:27
Location: UK
Main keyboard: Northgate Omnikey Ultra T
Main mouse: Razer Death Adder
Favorite switch: MX Brown / Complicated White ALPS
 
IBM Model M SSK. I am really proud about having this as my first board.
I wish my first PC was as classy...
Okeg

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Posts: 169
Joined: 13 Aug 2012, 17:20
Location: Norway
Main keyboard: *sold*
Main mouse: *sold*
Favorite switch: Hall Effect/Beam spring
 
CMStorm QuickFire Rapid (MX Blue). It's out of my keyboard rotation now; barely used. :P
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Main keyboard: Dell AT101W
Main mouse: Genius NetScroll 120
Favorite switch: Complicated ALPS Black
 
 
CMStorm QuickFire Rapid (Cherry MX Blue) | Ducky DK1087 (XM Alps Green) | Dell AT101W | Keycool 87 (Cherry MX Red) | IBM Model M 1391401 | Unicomp EnduraPro | Unicomp 5250 122-key Term Emu
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