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If you do Cherry donor boards there's several G80s with blacks and browns. Just take a brown spring and a black stem and you've got a red switch.

My keyboard sucks at the moment but that'll change sometime soon hopefully. It's currently the best USB keyboard I have.
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Cheap-o Dell keyboard that came with a Vostro. SK-8115 - featherweight, no metal stabiliziers on most of the long keys, but decent key feel - pretty light for a ...

That's probably buckling rubber sleeve similar to the ones on the M4s.

IBM had a bunch of rubber dome with different feels. There's the rubber dome Ms, the rubber sleeve M4's, the Chicony boards (KB-3923, KB-8923, KB-9930, several others) I have a KB-9930 in front of me with okayish feel), the NMB ...

So...how much would a somewhat yellowed AEKII go for, with pad-printed non-original (but matching in color and font) caps for numpad 0, Del, and Enter and without stabilizers for 0 and Enter? In the US...

Hmm, reminds me of those things you see at some hospitals, where they mount a computer and/or laptop on a cart and stuff.

Here's a thought. Why don't you ask Unicomp to make keycaps with red or blue printing? Sort of like Sixty's group buy for red lettered keycaps. I mean, they do dye sub, and they make blue lettered Ctrl keys and such.


(as usual I won't be participating in this since I don't currently own a Model M ...

OT, but it would be cool to make a minimize key, a maximize key, and a red close key and then put it in the PrintScreen - ScrollLock - Pause/Break cluster.

Oh it's engraved, I didn't notice before. I should read text. In that case, I recommend going otaku. Can you imagine piano keys engraved with the notes, so Beethoven could remember them?

Glockenspiel bars are usually engraved with the notes. And some vibraphones too, though the one I use has them ...

Some of the lasered ones are Helvetica.

The rounded bubbly font on the doubleshots, dye subs, and certain lasered ones appears to be custom. I tried to get a match before, but it's definitely custom - though if you mix VAG Rounded Bold and Helvetica Rounded Bold, you can get something close.

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You just need better lighting and correct white balance. Even most basic cameras allow you to adjust WB automatically.

Pretty much all Alps are plate mounted.

The green text is probably silkscreened or pad printed. Triple and even quadruple shot keys do exist though (certain Brother typewriters had triple shot keys)

There was at least 1 Acer board with white complicated Alps, and several with clicky Acer membrane switches.

Yes, though there's several variants of whites (complicated, type 1 simplified [a.k.a. Fukkas] , type 2 simplified [a.k.a. XM's], non-clicky dampened complicateds [as on SGI Granite and Apple Extended II]), among others. Blues and some grays are generally also clicky.

I lost the game.

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What switch is that on the KPT?

Right now LibreOffice.

Looks like someone got their hands on a Wheelwriter! That's a sweet looking Mini.

Looks like SP OEM'd those caps.

Hmm, it has the same font as the keyboard on my Dell Latitude laptop.

Hmm, didn't those laptops have a ton of bounce issues?

How are the keys printed?

Also you need to deal with a number of different Return/Backspace/Backslash configurations...
Standard ANSI (AT101/W, Leading Edge, AEK/II, Filco Zero, ABS M1, Matias Tactile Pro, etc.)
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Large L-shaped Enter + Large backspace ...

How are you going to deal with stabilizers? That might be an issue on the extended keys because most Alps boards probably use different ways to attach them.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/HelveticaSpecimenCH.svg/500px-HelveticaSpecimenCH.svg.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Univers_Specimen ...

D-d-d-dye subs...

Sort of like Alps switches...

U9BL-S?

This is why I prefer proper ANSI.

However, I don't want either. I'm a left shift only guy and I hit full sized backspace in the middle.