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I saw someone asked on YouTube about the sound signature of the Keymacs - is is the keycaps, or the chassis?
Lispnick and Chyros already did a few videos with sound tests, but I figured I would make another one.
My conclusion is: the sound signature is both chassis and keycaps, but mostly the ...

Check out lispnick’s thread about recreating the Lisp keyboard. He has done extensive research and experimentation with different manufacturing methods. I think for the quantities you are looking for, injection molding will be too expensive (tens of thousands of dollars) but resin casting that he ...

Well, if you also like FK-5001… keyboards with white or blue Alps are a very deep rabbit hole. Omnikey series and Leading Edge DC-3014 are my favorite vintage boards.

If anyone has an Avant Prime or Avant Stellar that is not functioning properly, there is a good chance that this is because its EEPROM, which stores the key map and macros, is dead. The usual advice is to desolder the EEPROM and use the keyboard as a non-programmable one. But there is a better way ...

My Keymacs has arrived a few days ago (thank you Lispnick for making sure it reached me before the new tariffs took effect!), and I have to say, this is the best looking and sounding keyboard I have seen or heard. I have never made a YouTube review of anything, but this time I may have to.

That looks like a Chinese/Taiwanese keyboard with zhuyin, cangjie, and dayi characters. I have a FK-9000 from early 90s whose original keycaps had the same layout.

I just finished with Unicomp on Friday; they took my payment; they had me setup the layout of what I wanted on a template for them, but other than them not having green 1.5 keys for my desired Option keys, they told me they can produce exactly what I want. The price was $50 for the setup and $43 a ...

Ah, I missed the front-printed Macintosh part.
Yes, that will definitely be a custom order. Contact Joe (Ellipse) on Deskthority or via his website (ModelFKeyboards.com), I am sure he can make a custom one, but there will likely be a minimum order quantity and some setup costs.

A couple of years ago I asked Unicomp for the same thing - English+Hebrew+Russian set, and they told me they could not do a triple language set, only their standard English+Russian in black and blue colors, or English+Hebrew.

Your best bet is to order a Russian-Hebrew-English set from Ellipse ...

Here’s an interesting one: programmable 4th Gen Omnikey, rebadged for “TietoEnator” (a Finnish IT company apparently), with some interesting macro keys.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/267141348945

I recall one of these has showed up either on here, on GH or r/mk, a long time ago.

Here is the photo of my F104 with those 3/4" rubber feet from McMaster. Combined with 1/8" adhesive rubber feet, the typing angle is pretty close to a Model M with flip-out feet extended, and the diameter is just right to leave the case screws exposed.

The USB cable in the photo is different from ...

It is a tight fit, but I would install the case bolt inside the bottom case hole, then install the 1" bumper, and then install the bottom case to the top case.

I ended up buying 3/4 inch bumpers on McMaster-Carr (p/n 9540K932, if anyone is interested). They work well with the 6-32 screws that ...

I suggest starting from the beginning of the setup video in the manual and the written manual, to minimize the time you need to figure things out.


Yes, I eventually was able to get it to work; it was a combination of two separate issues: an ill-fitting spring on the E key and a a stabilizer ...

So, I am trying to troubleshoot some issues with the "E" key with my new F104. Most of the time it works OK, but occasionally it does not register or registers twice. Reseating the keycaps several times did not help. I went through the troubleshooting steps in the manual, and in the Signal Monitor I ...

AndyJ wrote: 05 Jul 2024, 20:18 Interesting! Do you have any pictures you can post here, or is there just the youtube thing?

Sure, here's a close up photo.

Not sure if anyone has encountered it before, but Malwarebytes thinks that the F77 utility (pandrew-util-for-vial_r4.exe) is a malware (Malware.Heuristic.2513). Ellipse, you may want to check to make sure the the version on your web site is clean, and if so, contact Malwarebytes so they update their ...

So, I designed and ordered a custom dye sublimated PBT keyset through Yuzukeycaps.com, and so far I have been impressed. They have a fairly intuitive online editor that allows you to design and fine-tune your own keycap set (background color, legend language, color, sign, alignment, etc.). The ...

Hopefully the container will not be going through the Red Sea, otherwise we may see “Curse upon the rubber domes!” added to the Houthi flags.

As far as the custom pad-printed keysets with MOQ of 5: is white ink going to be the only option for these? Or will it be possible to do sublegends in different colors?

I just find it hilarious that of all the keyboards in the world the one they found suspicious was the last keyboard that is mass-produced here in the US by a successor to the IBM OEM manufacturer.

Not a random unnamed board from an Amazon seller named YZXYZOO, not a Franken-board hand-wired in a ...

Here you go. There is even a company, YuzuKeycaps, making custom reverse dye sub sets for only $100 a piece (Keyreative is their manufacturer). They only offer Cherry profile sets, but Keyreative has done other profiles before.

Now that some manufacturers are offering reverse dye sub keycaps, could this become an option for Model F?

There are a few aftermarket options although none of them seem to be perfect.
Topre Realforce RGB comes with MX sliders, but from what I have heard, they are also not as good as regular Topre mount sliders.

Here is what the end result may look like.

I type in three languages (English, Russian, and Hebrew) pretty regularly, and, unfortunately, I am not that great at touch typing, especially in Hebrew. Which means I need language stickers for my keyboards (at least the ones that I use often).

My journey to find a set of stickers to accommodate ...

That’s great news. I am not normally a custom board guy… but if you are going to offer a full-size ANSI Keymacs kit with a full-size ANSI layout, I got some blue Alps stashed just for such an occasion!

Wait, does it mean that there is a full-size ANSI 104 keyset available for purchase? And/or a full-size or TKL keyboard with ANSI layout?

UnrealKeyboards made a custom dye sublimated keyset for my Topre (middle board in the picture), which required a lot of trial an error but ended up looking very nice.

I even used the C-stock keycaps from this project to make an extra keyset for my TKL, because even the C-stock with its ...

John Doe wrote: 07 Apr 2024, 02:45 You also need put a classic Acer KB101 there!!!

Yeah, I keep looking for one of these, or, better yet, the black Deltagold variant. In a good condition these are real unicorns.

I also got lucky on eBay with an FK-2002. Definitely a project board: some parts (cover, AT/XT switch) were missing, there are a few rusty spots on the plate, a couple of switches weren't consistently registering, pad-printed keycaps were showing a lot of shine, and one of the plastic standoffs ...