deskthority

They’re not something I’ve seen before, and I’ve had a half dozen Model F keyboards, several of them XTs. That’s not IBM’s style on those keyboards. They came with tasty, single piece, high quality, heavily inked dyesubs as standard. XT key caps are some of the best, far better than what they ...

Thank you all for your responses. I also just clicked on Chyrosran's review of the Model F XT from 2016, and despite the video being in 720p resolution it sure looks like there is a sticker on his as well.

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Which, to Muirium's credit, is indeed a keyboard ...

Thank you all for your responses. I also just clicked on Chyrosran's review of the Model F XT from 2016, and despite the video being in 720p resolution it sure looks like there is a sticker on his as well.

They’re not something I’ve seen before, and I’ve had a half dozen Model F keyboards, several of them XTs. That’s not IBM’s style on those keyboards. They came with tasty, single piece, high quality, heavily inked dyesubs as standard. XT key caps are some of the best, far better than what they put ...

Muirium wrote: 24 Oct 2022, 14:37 Looks like a sticker to me. The legend should absolutely not be bleeding out into the cap around it.

Thank you for the response. The top "layer" does seem to be made of a plastic though?

Hi deskthority, I posted on the r/modelf subreddit yesterday about a "mint" condition Model F XT I recently acquired, and it was suggested to me that I ask in here instead. The keyboard looks stellar, except the keycaps are a bit weird.

The one on the left is from this “mint” condition, and the one ...