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Muirium wrote: ↑

19 Oct 2022, 21:11

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Yes, Empire of the Sun, but what about that tape console system he’s so not playing the monitor isn’t even on?

Whoa! Christian Bale was the raddest kid on the block.

I'm late in finding this very fascinating and informative discussion, but I'm wondering if Mr. Harris has any knowledge of the Model M keyboards with blue Alps SKCM switches that pop up now and then? As far as I know it has never been confirmed whether these were a genuine IBM product, or an unauth...

Finally got my hands around a big Wang!
Terrific condition.
I'm gonna do some hi res scans of the Word Perfect shortcut strips which I removed for aesthetic reasons.

Thanks for doing this, really interesting.

I am also on the trail of these mysterious SMK boards with various manufacturer rebrands.
Please let me know if you come across any with transparent caps.

Not at the moment, plus I'm in Aus so the shipping would likely be pretty bad, but give me a message as I do need to clear out/sell some stuff soon. I did try making them ANSI with a couple of SGI dyesubs, but unfortunately the different fonts, colours and keycap shapes didn't really work that well...

Muirium wrote: ↑

19 Dec 2019, 22:42

Yup. I’ve got a Zenith laptop board with the blue ones, which aren’t stellar but there’s plenty worse out there, besides: the caps are wonderful!

They are great caps, I prefer the grey ones from my Toshiba laptop aesthetically, but quality wise they are top notch.

Grabbed a Zenith for cheap because I love laptops with mechanicals. Turns out to to have Alps integrated Domes, beautiful double shots though. zenith1.jpg zenith2.jpg Nice keycaps... Still regretting I haven't bought a similar Zenith laptop, the seller didn't want to send it and I was to lazy to pi...

Grabbed a Zenith for cheap because I love laptops with mechanicals.
Turns out to to have Alps integrated Domes, beautiful double shots though.

Been coveting this for my transparent Alps collection for a long time, finally got one for a sensible price. It's the Macway version of the Filco Skeleton, and others, from the Strongman series. Would prefer a PC version but just happy to have one at all. Were the Filco/Macway transparent keyboards...

Been coveting this for my transparent Alps collection for a long time, finally got one for a sensible price.
It's the Macway version of the Filco Skeleton, and others, from the Strongman series.
Would prefer a PC version but just happy to have one at all.

That Hitler car is blocking the view of the beautiful beach ! Yeah, Hitler cars will do that. Here's a picture of a Hitler car blocking a view of Hitler. Hitler Volkswagen.png The composition of this Hitler and his cronies photo is horrible. Hitler is clearly supposed to be the focal point, but is ...

Literally in all existance, why is there politcal poop on a keyboard forum? Jesus christ go on ResetEra for godsake. You're in the off-topic forum. Nobody dragged you here. Off topic but on point. As a progressive I feel all vintage keyboards should be automatically registered to vote when they tur...

I have a terminal Model F, I would trade that.
Am in Australia.

No Vikings wore horned helmets.
Wenches be legit though.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is a good movie.
The Bruce Willis revenge part is okay, but the rest is just scummy drug dealers shooting each other, why should I give a shit?
Because I don't, I don't give a shit.

The short answer, which is quite long, is because Alps is a massive Japanese conglomerate, that makes all kinds of buttons, switches, dials and input devices/electronics, and at some point in the 90's a businessman saw on a balance sheet that everyone was going rubber dome and there was no point pro...

Needed something to store my keyboards in, so I bought a Compaq Server cabinet from a Tile shop for 100 bucks.

I ended up doing this to it, still going strong.

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I have now!
Interesting, now LED holes though, can't be picky and choosy with Alps though.

Ok, so I got my Atessa finally from Yahoo Auctions, I was poor at the time so I had to choose Seamail, and it's taken months. Another transparent Alps board for the collection, but there is some weirdness here. I have no experience with black Alps, my At-101 had white, but these feel wrong for what ...

...wood is the future...

That is awesome! Thanks andrewjoy, i'd like to something a bit more elaborate for the next one, but I'm not sure what yet. I was thinking of getting a wooden case made for standard filco etc TKLs but do it as lots of layers of wood ( a bit like the acrylic cases.) End grain plywood can look quite g...

Yeah I love this: the case, the caps, the leds, the labels, all look great. Although, the little bit of overhang on the flat plane label makes me fidgety. ;) When I see this kind of thing I'm reminded how much I'd like to get a custom dye sub setup like https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/...

andrewjoy wrote: ↑

11 Sep 2019, 18:33

That is awesome!

Thanks andrewjoy, i'd like to something a bit more elaborate for the next one, but I'm not sure what yet.

And with that I think this build is finished! I still need to drill a whole in back for the cable, and add some rubber feet maybe. I might make a second one for the right side, and hopefully I can fix some of my errors on that one. But it works great, it's so satisfying pushing a cube and generating...

Who likes LEDs?!

Need to redo one blue wire which is bad for some reason, but it accepted the code seemingly without other issues.

And here are the legends!