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Looking at your photos I'm wondering if a guide post socket would be too tall to work with your BAE key? Those stick up fairly high from the plate, and there might not be clearance on the keycap for it to work. I just measured some guide posts. These were done with cheap digitital calipers, so not ...

Hello:) I find out MX switches have unpleasant hard bottom, nothing can improve it. I’m notice days ago that alps in simple stainless steel plate not hard at all. I’m starting experimenting, and went to linear white Alps heavy sorted by smooth, baglubed with some paraffin bike lube + brushlube with...

There were U.S. keyboards sold with an ISO Enter key. The Focus FK-2002 in the link below I bought new back in the '90s. It had a Macro key next to the small left shift, instead of the 102nd ISO key. https://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=54704 Some Mac clone Alps keyboards also had an ISO En...

Thank you for the information on the stabilizers. Early Focus (and Northgate) keyboards had a BAE key with a horizontal Alps-style (rectangular inserts) stabilizer wire, and a guide pin on the upper part of the key. Later Focus (but not Northgate) keyboards had two stabilizer wires on the BAE--one ...

Have you got a link to that reference, Polecat? Great board, btw. Blue Alps truly sing in a solid chassis. Thank you Muirium! I was expecting the keyboard to have Tai-Hao Aruz switches because of its serial number and seeing the examples of TH-5539-5 on Deskthority. This is when I was waiting for t...

That is a great find and a beautiful keyboard. The weird curved case threw me the first time I saw one in person. I had to look at it a long time to convince myself it was actually built that way on purpose. The stabilizer on the spacebar looks like an early Focus one, but the stabilizer and guide ...

Very nice keyboard! I like the Focus layout and function key label. I wonder if it was made by the same manufacturer as Focus? Thank you! I also really like the aesthetics of the Focus layout. I personally prefer the BAE key over the straight ANSI Enter key on my modern office-style keyboards. It i...

Hi! I am new here and registered to post and share my appreciation of an old Alps keyboard I bought a few months ago. The keyboard is a Tai-Hao Fame 5539-5. It is yellowed but quite clean for its age. It has a steel bottom plate and steel switch plate and relatively heavy for a compact keyboard. The...