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https://www.ebay.de/itm/ALPS-Keyboard-Tastatur-OPD-ICL-Neu-Vintage-12KE080B/294051193399?_trkparms=aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20201018205123%26meid%3Db26a3d0066a549d79ce83943b76c98cf%26pid%3D101286%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dnone%26itm%3D294051193399%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1...

Complete IBM Displaywriter with its BeamSpring keyboard, UK local collection only. Accepts offers just now... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-computer-IBM-Display-writer-with-printer/224171616228 The beam-spring keyboard that didn't even get any bids?! Perhaps the impending, seemingly random, lo...

SneakyRobb wrote: ↑

13 May 2020, 02:36

Hey good job on this. Always like to see people make things!

As well your alps/microswitch adaptor looks great

Thanks !

The DRS20 had the same shifted number legends and colorway. https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8412057/drs20-model-16-visual-display-visual-display-unit Suspect it's a keycap variation of the same keyboard. Here is a close-up of another version and a clearly matching LOCK light ...

It's been a while, let's give this another try.

This is obviously not a full switch plate, but it should be easy enough to build one using this module. It took a bit of tinkering but now the switches fit really snugly with the bottom of the switch sitting flush with the underside of the plate.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4342987

I've been meaning to publish these for ages. Basically it's what it says on the tin - use your glorious chunky Micro Switch keycaps with Alps key switches. With my Ender 3 and PLA they are a pretty tight fit, so depending on printer and material adjustments have to be made. https://www.thingiverse.c...

I bought these keycaps about a year ago on ebay. Does anybody by any chance know which keyboard they originally belonged to? It's obviously Micro Switch, but that's as far as I got.

twasa wrote: ↑

16 Jan 2019, 18:07

Thanks Muirium, that makes sense. Although I would expect that one can ameliorate some of the strangeness with key remapping (to a point).

If you throw in a couple of keycaps from a model M (arrows etc.) you can end up with a layout that's pretty close to a regular tenkeyless.

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https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/s622467322 https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/s622940396 https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/x581029590 3 alps plate spring ibm battleships, still no bid so far and only a day left Anybody willing to proxy one of those? You literally just visited a proxy page. H...

DatOtherJosh wrote: ↑https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/s622467322
https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/s622940396
https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/x581029590
3 alps plate spring ibm battleships, still no bid so far and only a day left

Anybody willing to proxy one of those?

My first build is pretty close to my optimal layout (I just need to find decent replacements for the three Atari key caps I used). I was worried the vertical modifiers (which I placed like this to avoid unsightly gaps on the left hand side) would be weird or annoying, but they work surprisingly well...

Very cheap (right now) model M. I bid on it but realised now that it's going to be two weeks before I can pick it up in Portsmouth (also, I actually have enough model Ms). So, great opportunity to get a model M essentially for free if you live somewhere in the area. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OLD-CO...

What's shipping to UK going to be (1 cable)?

I'm using a 1mm aluminium plate for my current (and first) build. It's wobbly as hell but luckily I planned in plenty of standoffs. When they are properly attached to the switch and bottom (2mm alu) plate the keyboard feels very solid and I can detect no vibrations or resonance. For further dampenin...

Marvellous tactile SMK inverse cross mount switch - cheap for Frenchies. Have the same keyboard or I would have asked seller to ship to Germany. Decent condition... https://www.leboncoin.fr/informatique/140196832.htm?ca=12_s I've got a set of key caps from a canon typewriter to go with it if anybod...

No idea if this is worth getting:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Compaq-Serie ... 2467471056

Ok, I've read up on this and (assuming I understood everything correctly) it's not really that complicated. Each board pre-defines external interrupts for a number of (but not all) pins. Hasu's converter uses the interrupt on the pin the CLOCK signal is connected to to detect the rising edge of the ...

Hasu just replied to my bug report on github - apparently if you want to use different pins you have to change the interrupts at the bottom of config.h as well. If I can find out how exactly (i.e. which values for which pins) I might set up a pull request with updated documentation.

I've just spent a *lot* of time trying to get this to work. As it turns out on my cheap Chinese arduino micro clone (which is otherwise great, BTW, since it fits inside a DB9 plug) the *only* pin configuration that works (and yes, I know you have to change the values in config.h if you want to use d...

Thanks balotz, keyboard arrived today, prompt and as advertised.

Now I'm in a dilemma, though. I had planned to use it as a donor of pristine black Alps for my build - however, seeing this untouched board I'm not sure I'll have the heart to rip it apart.

mecano wrote: ↑What is that?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOBLE-Multi-la ... 2548060905

From the layout it looks like the keyboard of an MSX computer. Many of these had ALPS integrated dome switches AFAIK.

EDIT: Didn't notice the sliders on the side of the keycaps - so I'm probably wrong.

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Two weird terminal keyboards: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unusual-computer-keyboard-SYSTEM-FOUR-from-VDU-terminal/182905442978 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cifer-Systems-model-2605-03-G-VDU-Terminal-KEYBOARD-ONLY/182905439499 Huuu, did you see that seebart? I was "working" all weekend with the seller ...

Two weird terminal keyboards:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unusual-comp ... 2905442978

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cifer-System ... 2905439499

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ideus wrote: ↑

seebart wrote: ↑Sure that makes sense. Sorry I don't have any of those keysets. I have this slightly incomplete Alps SKCC set that I might sell/trade:

wiki/Tatung_71739

Is that set MX compatible?

http://telcontar.net/KBK/keycapcomp.php

Well, standard as in most common (AFAIK), but yes, that's the one I meant.

Sorry no, that won't work, I'm looking for standard Alps mount.

(beautiful key caps, though)