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It probably means "Gold Crosspoint", which is a term applicable to all MX switches. There is no MX Gold switch.

If you do get your hands on one, you could use xev to see what, if any, key codes it sends.

Looks like ordinary rubber dome. The gold-coloured lasered lettering looks like early 2000s HP/Compaq stuff to me, although I wouldn't have pictured them doing video editing gear.

RiverDax wrote: ↑

24 May 2020, 00:22

Looks like it's related to this one.

Micro Switch SD series.

Czech-made Cherry boards are relatively recent, so the C will mean 2016. (Plus it's got the recent logo, USB etc.)

It looks a lot like the "Katano" switch.

I've been giving this another look. Thanks everyone for all the info in this thread before. I've been keeping an eye out for a larger MID device which might help get these keypads up and running, and this kind of thing looks promising. I'm wondering though, do all larger Tipro units have a controlle...

Assuming you're only talking about the Brother design, there's already a page for the capacitive version here.

I submitted that one image on the page. Come to think of it, if that typewriter with the similar caps that you have isn't the capacitive version, that one could be a different version too.

Well, I'm not there yet, but I've got some progress. Turns out the reason the keypad wasn't sending anything on XP was because ChangeMe deactivates the connection or something. At startup, it works ok. I tried MIDWIN (only needed disk1 to install so I didn't need to get hold of a blank floppy) and t...

I picked up two Tipro keypads a while ago and just got together all the stuff needed to program them... or so I thought. They're two of the same type - MID-KM032MAA. I made a cable to connect them following this wiki page , and have that plugged into the PS/2 port of a computer running Windows XP 32...

Depending on what the intended purpose of this was, the arrow placement might not have been so much of an issue. In many applications (eg. a command line), the functions of the horizontal and vertical arrows are almost unconnected and they won't generally be being used much at the same time.

Yeah. Given the "special order" look of this thing then, maybe it was a temporary solution from before or after the availability of the SKFF equivalent., or maybe Canon requested a less clicky double action switch. Edit: Regarding the model code, do note that SKCC is a family that comprises at least...

This switch is already documented, actually. It's SKFF Double Action. HaaTa covered a later variant in this thread.

That's bizarre. If I'd had to guess, I would've reckoned that was a Key Tronic for sure Oo . Cool keyboard though! :) Key Tronic and DCS legends do have a very similar style, but there's an easy way to tell them apart. Look at the 3. Key Tronic's font gives it a flat top, whereas on DCS it has a ro...

I'm guessing that's got Futaba switches of some description.

Fujitsu Peerless. Here's the wiki page on this keyboard family.

Well it's certainly nothing to do with the one on the wiki. That's about two decades newer than this.

This honkin keyboard caught my attention. Does anyone know what switch it uses? It's made by Lear Siegler for the ADM 42 terminal. https://i.imgur.com/JENWkMu.jpg That'll be Stackpole switch grid. Here's another ADM series board on the wiki , and the caps look to be a match for other Stackpole boar...

Have you seen this before?

If you're up for a bit of soldering, you can assemble a converter yourself and flash Soarer's converter onto it. As far as I know, the cheapest and most readily available board that can be used is the Pro Micro and clones of it. That should be much cheaper than buying a prebuilt one from the US or w...

The keycaps are definitely Cherry. Judging by the shape of them (they look low and flat profile), I would be expecting Cherry ML... but the wiki claims that wasn't introduced until a few years after this machine?

Pretty sure GYUR (as opposed to GYUM, etc.) on Silitek boards means it's a rubber dome board.

Edit: A later board in this thread disproves this.

All this talk of AT connectors and bootlegs reminds me, the cable of my Model M bugs me. Surely they're not supposed to have a logo that looks like THIS, right? IBerM.jpg That's got to be too far off model for IBM to tolerate. I mean, here's an XT's plug for comparison. IBMXTplug.jpg So what's up wi...

Well, for whatever it's worth, the keycaps appear to be the same family that was used on the Amstrad CPC 464. Don't know if that helps narrow anything down though. Pretty sure I've seen them on a few seemingly unrelated boards.

Pink and white colourway, Japanese legends AND an oversized Hello Kitty artisan? Best GB ever!

OK, that is the Alps version then.

Just so you're aware, the M0110A was manufactured by three different companies, so you'll want to check which version you've got. The quickest way to check seems to be the country it was manufactured in.