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I'm completely out of the loop too, but from what I've tried with the modern stuff, it's improved tenfold in feel. Modern linears are so hilariously smooth there's almost no point in distinguishing a lot of them. Tactiles are seemingly trying different bumps compared to the copy+paste brown or clear ...

With Alps you're looking at an almost definite restore job, or you're going to be let down. Clones age even more poorly, same can be said for vintage MX clones. You can get lucky and find a real gem of a board that was kept in good condition every now and again though.
Can't go wrong with a Model M ...

In my experience, many Dell rubber dome keyboards used to suffer from quite tough resistance when keys (esp. longer ones) were pressed near their edges (not in their centre). Maybe this keyboard is the exception to this rule?


Not an exception really, these keyboards use plastic stabilizers last ...

You guys really think he cares? He cashed out and bolted. Hope that money is doing you well buddy.

Looks very similar to the Compaq Enhanced board I have with Keytronic dome with sliders. Not a very nice thing to type on.

If it's not that, it's very likely an RT101 with NMB dome with sliders:

Still broke.

I've found that 45g topre are definitely stiffer than MX brown. At least this is the case on my HHKB.
I doubt they mean that 30g is more mushy in terms of bottom out feel, it's probably just less tactile. People deeper in the community tend to love hyper tactile switches for some reason.

Most pages are broken, even when you're logged out. This is likely something that's never going to be fixed under the new ownership...

Weird that everyone else gets a blank page, but I get some 500 error.

Label says Clone Turbo PC. At least they're pretty straight forward with admitting they're a clone! But yes, one of many PC XT clones of the time. Acer has nothing to do with it, just happened to find its way to being paired with this system. As always, if it can come with blue alps, don't be ...

AndyJ wrote: 27 Oct 2024, 17:18 The divot over the mystery pad looks like it might have been intended for a trackball, but there aren't any trackball bits in it.

I'm assuming this is for easier swapping of the legend sheet that is meant to go over those buttons

It looks like the top left branding says Incomm™, but I'm not sure. The company was founded in 1992 and I feel like that's a bit too new. But it does match up with the board having a card reader, so.

Where is the card reader located? The top?

Wow Never seen this one! What switches do the overlay buttons use? Rubber domes?

There is no escape...

Still not working

ITW magnetic valve, low profile. Neat switches. Shame it's missing caps (and return springs), though.

I doubt their quality has gone up much either. Glad they finally started offering an SSK though

I doubt it has anything to do with cookies, or at least it's not a problem on the user end. I've tried multiple browsers to no avail.

Old laptops are a gamble unless you SPECIFICALLY know that many examples show to have the switches you're looking for. I've seen some old Zenith laptops come with SKCL Green, then very similar models have Alps Integrated Dome or SKFL.

The keys themselves look like they have small plastic washers on the stems to help seat the dome mat better. Might wanna check those, otherwise I can't really think of anything affecting consistency.

Oh, for sure! The pics you attached very clearly show these are foam and foil. I'm mostly interested in the slider itself being a different shape than any other F&F switch I've seen to date. There were quite a few switches that straight up recycled the Keytronic mount, which I assume these to be ...

Interesting. Are you sure those are Keytronics? They look similar but the inside well of the slider isn't usually that smooth. They look a bit more like the KT dome with sliders I have.

Last one sounds like tiny little lego bricks moving around I am not a fan. Zenith is by far the best.

One of my friends teaches Japanese, but I'm not very sure he could find much info, he'd probably just be able to translate stuff if anything. Someone should definitely be archiving Sandy's site as well as other crucial info found on here, just in case...
I doubt they knew anyone could care this much ...

Yup, also been dealing with that as well. It's pretty annoying, but I guess I should be glad this site is even still up..

HTTP 500 also occurs when I submit a post, but if I check the post goes through. Well, at least some of them do.

The transition period was definitely not instant. I'm still not sure how small switchplates even affect smoothness or sound much considering I barely notice a difference between salmon and orange alps other than weighting. As most others here have speculated before, it's probably the click leaf more ...

Finally got some 8/10 blue alps recently after years of hunting them down. Barely paid anything for them! :D I can definitely see where the hype comes from. Granted, white alps are still amazing when clean, but there's just something about the blues that draws me back to them. I think a lot of it is ...

Strange bug I noticed that I can't access the wiki when logged in my account, it just gives me an HTTP 500 error. Can access it when logged out, however. Guess I'll just hold out on updating pages until this issue gets fixed

I'm interested in skipping the line and paying a little more, how do I do this?

EDIT: I ordered a F104 in a M-style case, just to clarify.


https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/skip-the-line/

You should probably first email Ellipse to ask if a number is available if you’re looking for ...

I noticed if I reply to more than three posts within the general same timeframe, I get flagged for spam. Any way to get around this other than just posting less? Thanks

Yellows are great. Really I think the whole first gen SKCM/SKCL being better than all the newer stuff is a bit overblown.. Condition matters far more than anything. I'll take a clean white alps board over a dirty blue alps board any day of the week.
At least you scratched it under the case! You ...