http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Keyboard-Amst ... 0983796548



Anyone know what switch is used in this one? Thought it looked interesting, may be wrong

Asides from the stepped keycaps and colors it looks nearly identical to the Commodore G80-0499. Good chance it could be Cherry. Can't get seller to confirm?

Oof. I used to have one of these many years ago. I don't think it was clicky, and some hazy memory tells me in retrospect it may have been linear, but I'm stabbing in the dark beyond that.

The computer went in the skip back in the late 90s, but I do still have the mouse and user manual for some reason!

The leds tells me that it isn't cherry.

Sure it doesn't look like this ?


That IS one huge spacebar !
Also, the hat-caps,LED-caps and HUGE HAT-ASS Return !!

The Commodore keyboards have a 1.25 wide Control and Caps Lock keys. On this keyboard, those keys are 1 and 1.5 wide, respectively. Thus, the keyboards not the same inside. Still, there are lots of similarities. The space bar looks the same.

Definitely not cherry.

Amstrad boards use an interesting spring loaded design, I like to calll them non buckling spring switches. The spring is attached to a nob on the inside of the keycap. I sent my board to Haata a while back, im sure he has pictures of the internals on his site, you can pm and ask him.

Now, I don't have to wonder anymore, where HaaTa finds all that stuff.