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I have just made an additional blog post regarding a potential group buy for the Deskthority site: Save Deskthority! As some of you may have heard, the future of the Deskthority mechanical keyboard forum is uncertain after the current owners have offered it for sale. It was suggested that I head up ...

Today I reached out to this site's proprietor expressing my interest and received a thoughtfully written reply including the information that they are looking for $15k for the site and that an offer for $5k was turned down. My guess is that the final price may settle around $7.5k to $10k if they wis...

I found out that a full-size Raspberry Pi board will *just barely* fit. The Ethernet port is blocked by one of posts that holds the LED board. I did some trial fitting with a 3B+. The Pi 4 has USB OTG and the same port layout, but that's $55+shipping, and way more horsepower than I need. [twiddling ...

Here's an interesting example of the apparent ghosts of spam in those post IDs! https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?p=514065#514065 As usual for a false positive, the opening post of a thread comes up. No size= in there. Then I see mmm and kbdfr having a curious conversation. Sure enough, there *...

The £41 set you link is just the modifiers, though, and ANSI only at that. A full SA Retro right now costs 41 for mods + 41 for alphas another 37 for ISO , 15 for the numpad and whatever the shipping / customs are; which can be quite a nightmare. One of my very worst customs experiences was the one ...

000111Ain wrote: ↑

21 Dec 2023, 10:55

So I want to know the price, do I have to buy all of these 1800 pieces, or can I buy some in small quantities？

viewtopic.php?f=55&t=28447

Hello all! :) Some of you already know the story about the Stock i found Locally through a contact i have for many years. I am talking about around 1800~ pcs of NOS SKFF Alps switches (i will keep 100pcs) . I have a hard time get a right price as he want me to pay the hole Stock ( 1000€ ) to be able...

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: thy problem is not electrical or software, yet mechanical 'i nature. The path to the wholeness may be found by reseating the keycap or by replacing the spring. I feel like these boards should come with a bunch of springs (don't need to be with flippers) free of char...

Nice info!

Muirium wrote: ↑

22 Oct 2023, 19:23

55? Cheapskate recognise cheapskate.

Well you know… he said it needs a bolt mod

55? Cheapskate recognise cheapskate.

Searching for a Silver Reed version of this machine continues, I've ruled out EXD15 as a possible model number as that machine is completely different in every way and uses pre-DIN switches. EXD might have been the "portable" line alongside the EX line of non portable machines? EXD10 being their tin...

Speaking more broadly about Silver Reed dome switches, I think I should lay out the naming convention I have for them since that makes talking about them easier. Currently I am aware of 4 types, 5 if we count the slightly smaller sliders that the R5 caps on this machine use. I don't think the smalle...

Another day another Silver Reed find, this time one that appears to be a rebrand. I say "appears" because I can't actually find a silver reed version of this machine. from the PCB inside is appears to be related to the EXD10 but while those are very similar, with the chassis being essentially identi...

The firmware version readout is just plain text "typed" automatically into the computer, right? (Essentially a macro.) If so, sounds like it ends with a series of Backspace characters to remove it; with the assumption the PC was immensely slower so you could read this message while it was typed then...

Labor Day Sale! 55% Off at https://www.ebay.com/str/xmitkeyboards

This weekend (September 3rd-5th), take an additional 15% off listed eBay prices. I've got a few curios in there, including some AEK IIs and a neat Stackpole board. Help me clear some shelf space!

Full applicable laptop/subnotebook/portable workstation list M6 or M6-1 is given either by IBM/Lexmark's assignment or based on a keyboard's closest related M6 or M6-1 (pretty much all the keyboards are related to at least another or based on another's layout) with the discussion in the "M6 versus ...

The couple times I've lubed alps I've just gone for the sides of the slider that makes contact with the rails after ultrasonically cleaning the stem and upper housings, and it seeeeeems to work alright, though I've never tried your type of method to compare. I hate the sluggishness that lube someti...

The couple times I've lubed alps I've just gone for the sides of the slider that makes contact with the rails after ultrasonically cleaning the stem and upper housings, and it seeeeeems to work alright, though I've never tried your type of method to compare. I hate the sluggishness that lube someti...

JP! wrote: ↑

03 Jul 2023, 17:02

XMIT Mega Sale: https://www.ebay.com/usr/jsoltren

Please check again! I ran into some issues with eBay, but everything is back up. Thanks!

See also viewtopic.php?f=55&t=28210

Recently managed to buy this chicony 5161 with a curious samsung VTI PERSONAL COMPUTER branding photo_2023-06-17_20-30-55.jpg The badge is simple and elegant, it's a sticker but rather high quality one. photo_2023-06-14_18-43-31.jpg photo_2023-06-14_18-43-34.jpg photo_2023-06-14_18-43-37.jpg The sw...

Recently managed to buy this chicony 5161 with a curious samsung VTI PERSONAL COMPUTER branding photo_2023-06-17_20-30-55.jpg The badge is simple and elegant, it's a sticker but rather high quality one. photo_2023-06-14_18-43-31.jpg photo_2023-06-14_18-43-34.jpg photo_2023-06-14_18-43-37.jpg The sw...

bottom-out-damper.png Bottoming-out damper. Comes in contact with the stem 0.7mm above the barrel contact point. stem-on-damper.png If made of 30 Shore A silicone, this 0.7mm should be good for couple kg of force (which is kinda A LOT for a keypress). If more force is applied, the key will contact ...

Indeed. I've not seen them so worn in any of my (very much NOT NOS) boards. Should look like this: https://deskthority.net/wiki/images/thumb/5/55/NMB_Hi-Tek_white.jpeg/1200px-NMB_Hi-Tek_white.jpeg the black coating is present on a couple of switches but i have quite a few that look like the one in ...

Indeed. I've not seen them so worn in any of my (very much NOT NOS) boards. Should look like this: https://deskthority.net/wiki/images/thumb/5/55/NMB_Hi-Tek_white.jpeg/1200px-NMB_Hi-Tek_white.jpeg the black coating is present on a couple of switches but i have quite a few that look like the one in ...

Indeed. I've not seen them so worn in any of my (very much NOT NOS) boards.

Should look like this:

JP! wrote: ↑

18 May 2023, 23:15

sharktastica wrote: ↑

18 May 2023, 21:18

[*] 55 = Greenock: spotted at the start of serial of most IBM UK Model Ms from before 1996,

Pulled from my database , an early production Model F AT. I was wondering what this particular ID meant. I didn't believe it to be the 55th unit produced.

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Ah this one is interesting.

sharktastica wrote: ↑

18 May 2023, 21:18

[*] 55 = Greenock: spotted at the start of serial of most IBM UK Model Ms from before 1996.

Pulled from my database , an early production Model F AT. I was wondering what this particular ID meant. I didn't believe it to be the 55th unit produced.

Yes, the letter at the beginning of an IBM Model M serial number does mean something special. The letter indicates the plant where the keyboard was manufactured. A: Lexington, Kentucky B: Chicopee, Massachusetts C: Austin, Texas D: South Carolina E: Japan F: Mexico G: Taiwan H: China So, your keybo...