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The loudest I've dared to go and got away with is SKCM salmons in Apple M0118, and it's my current driver at work at the moment. It would be great if I could bring in board with clicky switches and no-one said anything but I highly doubt it would go that way. But I'm still tempted to take my NEC APC...

NeK wrote: ↑

29 Jan 2020, 07:48

I have a question that's being bugging me for a good while now and I can't find a clear answer

That doesn't sound like what they're supposed to feel like. I've couple of boards with pine whites in good condition, and they are quite smooth.

Have you tried cleaning any of the switches?

Khers wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2020, 18:36

Excellent photo!

Finally got some of these, can't wait to have them in an actual keyboard! But I didn't get to get my soldering iron out right away so I settled for taking some photos instead. https://i.imgur.com/9JAd5o5.jpg These will probably get mounted on an Acer 6012 that originally has some white SKCMs once I ...

Acer 6012 with white Alps when I was about 14. It was a beast among all the other boards I had, which were all rubber domes. Some decent Key Tronic and an Olivetti ANK-27 102 were among those but the Acer had class that wasn't matched. It was loud and had a nice solid feel to it. I no longer have th...

Are white alps worse than Monterey switches? If in good condition, I'd say white Alps are better, but it's matter of preference, especially between these two switches which are both very nice. The Montereys have lighter typing feel but the Alps give you fuller sound with more low-end with bit heavi...

Anyone recognize the ICL board(s) here? Worth getting? https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=94063.0 suggests rubberdome, but it's maybe not authoritative Thanks. I bought two and noticed that the second one with the red markings on the keycaps had a peculiar placed escape-key, but as far as I know ...

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1JJkvcfBj_uVjSZFpq6A0SXXaM/TAIWAN-mechanical-push-button-switch-Replace-of-ALPS-keyboard-switch-microswitch-2-foot-2pin-grey.jpg What are these? They look like blue Alps to me, but then they don't. I'm no expert on identifying different Alps switches, but the blue Alps...

So, you have a Laser-branded keyboard with an FCC ID that points to Vtech.

I have a VTech-branded board with an FCC ID that points to Laser.

https://imgur.com/a/Ct5v0VT

The plot thickens :p

Cool! Similar to our setup of the time. I liked GEM better than DOS, too. Who didn't? If I remember correctly I liked DOS as much. Not because it was awesome, but because there were things to discover. I was 6 or 7 at the time, max. 8 years old on that photo. Sometimes I started up GEM just to draw...

Here's me. The year is probably 88 or 89. The computer is Amstrad PC1640 with monochrome display and a single 360kB 5,25" floppy drive. No HD in that machine. It ran MS-DOS 3.2. The GUI that is showing is GEM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Environment_Manager). And a dot matrix printer on t...

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What kind of sick bastard decides to put Fn-keys next to space bar? And on both sides? Please.

OT, but what's up with these spam link accounts lately?

cli wrote: ↑

30 Mar 2019, 16:27

Nice post. You should try using two guitar picks to open the housing, it's much easier than toothpicks.

Plenty of guitar picks in the house, I will try with them the next time!

bujorc wrote: ↑

30 Mar 2019, 14:27

Nice! Which springs have you used?

Sprit 50cN

I'm originally an ISO user but I converted to ANSI because I felt it'd open up some keyboard possibilities. Now I just use ANSI layout even on my ISO boards. Life is good.

Hi, I thought I'd share my experience on cleaning some Alps switches with ultrasonic cleaner. This isn't going to be filled with exact timings or scientific measurements, just overall feelings about the whole process. Couple of months back I bumped on Apple M0118, for which I built a converter and g...

Consider this as well, buying NOS blue alps, or any NOS switch for that matter, is putting yourself in a dilemma: do you use the switches making them not NOS anymore, or do you preserve their NOSness and never use them just to say that you have them? From my point of view, what's the point of havin...

Isn't the non-black Realforce more white than beige despite what some product descriptions say? If someone asked for the color of my Realforce, I'd say it's white.

Here it is on a white table:

https://imgur.com/BWKqXbw

TheInverseKey wrote: ↑Well..... It is finally here! I know that a lot of people wanted a guide on how to lube these switches.

Thanks for the video, I was just thinking of coming and asking about lubing linear space invaders before logging in

Felima wrote: ↑Dytcom K-260
They are linear and little scratchy.

Not unlike MX browns then.



...I'll see myself out.

So, my adventures into the weird realm of xkb aside, keycaps: I've had a quick look around and it's looking like I may still be in a similar situation to where I was with my Model M, which is that custom keycaps aren't really a thing. Don't worry, the Matias switches hold on to the caps so tightly ...

I had (have) the KBP V80 with Matias Quiet Clicks. I had couple of switches chattering after some time of use. One of them died completely and no magic trick like opening up the switch and cleaning them helped. I returned it for repair, and it worked for some time until the problems started again. T...

Cheers. glws!

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snacksthecat wrote: ↑

701c wrote: ↑
I actually kind of like it

It has choices in visual aesthetics that I find very easy to disagree with, but I can't say it's downright ugly. What I mean is that if there are people who like it, I can believe them if they say so and get on with my life after hearing it.

Don't know if I'd put MX blues to the top but they are indeed bad and surely one of the most overrated switches. Which would be another nice top X list in itself.

Ok, thanks for the info all of you. This has been helpful!

Looks like I'm going the DIY route, seems like a fun little project, especially when there's no need to worry over the software yourself.