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My instinctive thought was 230 (from some spec I read once) — over 200, as I recall.

A very quick Internet search gives me, for 2004, 50–65 G operating, and 300+ G non-operating. I assume I had read the non-operating figure.

Are both equal Alps switches or is one inferior to the other in build or finish? The first one is SKBM White, made by Forward Electronics, AKA simplified Alps. It's real Alps in the sense that they started out Alps branded, but that one is from after the Alps branding was removed (instead it just s...

(PS I suspect that the Académie française would prefer you to swear in French ;-)

This page gives me déjà vu …

Except now we still have two pages (after a merge there should only be one, by definition) and deleting the old page would remove a lot of information that has not gone anywhere. The new page is not a replacement for the old one; all you've managed to do is screw up the history of the old page, whic...

Topre should have converted the original file to PDF. At the very least, scan it with sufficient resolution that this is not the result: Illegible.png There is more information on the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20050307101444/http://www.topre.co.jp:80/products/electric/keybord/ Unfortunately ...

Right, so where do you imagine the brochure came from?

This Topre brchure says 3.0mm. https://web.archive.org/web/20031203181824/http://www.topre.co.jp:80/products/electric/keybord/cap_key.pdf Cheers, I'll add that to the wiki. (I can't read any of it, but I can see where the travel is given.) Why the PDF isn't actual text that you can copy and paste, ...

Has anyone ever come across a specification for Topre short-throw giving the switch travel?

Datacomp DCK84B - pretty light board - switches are some kind of linear alps (or clones?), pretty flat. … The switches are "[wiki]Like SKFR but taller[/wiki]" — I don't know if they are part of SKFR series (there is an unreconciled model number SKFRAK) or a separate series. It's not the height that...

Was something supposed to have happened besides wiping the revision history for alternative keyboard layouts?

(Honestly I have no idea what on earth you stood to gain from trying to mash the pages together with a spork.)

"COLOR GRAPHICS", from back when that was actually significant claim!

Also, Tai-Hao keycaps on a Costar keyboard … curious.

I am not sure I've ever seen the US ones in a keyboard either (except one keyboard that has S882 alternate action). The tall US ones (S820) have been found in exactly one keyboard to date.These are very rare switches!

The momentary switches are rated at 50 million (France/Belgium) and 100 million (US) cycles. It's the alternate action switches that have a low rating (1 million for the European series), which will be the limit of the latching mechanism. It's normal for alternate action switches to have a much lowe...

At least being a wiki, you can roll back the change if it creates a huge mess (I have no idea how it's going to automate such a merge).

Since you are in France, it will be [wiki]Clare/Pendar low profile reed[/wiki]. Clare-Pendar Series S880, the US series, is virtually identical. Should anyone want to replace the switch, they need to de-solder and remove it from the keyboard; it should have the part number printed on the side. https...

More details on the Omron keyboard:

[wiki]System Instruments 101A8[/wiki]

As such, it's now clear that B5GS-R101-620 is the Omron model.

Hm?

This is for the grumpy chocolate bar:

[wiki]File:Tipro Keyboards, January 1996.pdf[/wiki]

Covers T16X and T56X families (programmable), T745, T54X and T645 (industrial) and T17X (for people with impaired motor functions). Sent to me by Tipro today.

The ones on eBay are [wiki]Clare-Pendar Series S840[/wiki], with the crenellation mod.

Cost perhaps — whichever manufacturer was cheaper at the time. I assume that's what the deal was with Chicony and Monterey and their switch-swapping. (Some brands such as Nan Tan and Ortek offered high and low end switch options, which with Chicony at least seems not to have been the case, but that ...

Naming and grouping is one of the mysteries in life. For example, as I noted on the Mitsumi nomenclature page, Mitsumi has both related series and split-joint series. So even though I know that miniature mechanical includes "KLT" and "KLM", I cannot tell for sure if this is KLT Type and KLM Type, KL...

Those are not the same. The Wang is made by Costar, and the OP's is made by Omron.

"WAK-1101S" is not a confirmed name; it appears to be based on the Costar model number, but that's not Wang's part number.

Blaise170 wrote: ↑I have what appears to be a black version of NEC oval switches, but unlike the others I have, it uses Futaba inverse mount keycaps. Have these been documented anywhere before?

If you have to ask, the answer will be "no". NEC oval switches are not well documented.

For $5 I would be very tempted, as those switches (Peerless) are really interesting, and that one has proper 105-key ISO layout (mine's only 102-key, which is a deal-breaker for me). Be careful about cleaning though as the space bar has a weird little spring around the stabiliser wire for stiffness ...

Are SKCM/L Black switchess any good? I heard Chyros talk about them and he seemed pretty positive (he didn't mention them on his top 5 though, maybe it's top 6 or 7..). I've used bamboo black (AT102W) and they're not great — they don’t have a particularly clear tactile peak. Pine black is meant to ...

The sound depends on what the keyboard is made of and how it is constructed. The nicest sound I've encountered for Alps is my Monterey K102; putting the clicky parts of the switches into a Dell AT102W yields a keyboard that doesn't sound as good. I have never seen a video of any keyboard that has th...

Curiously, looking at the 1998 catalogue/1999 digital products library: All the keyboards listed are non-discrete units. That is: "KPQ Type" — a type of factory-made keyboard assembly, that cannot be ordered from a warehouse (it has to be designed to order) "KPQ-EA4YA" — a model from KPQ type "SOR/S...

Honeywell rubber dome it seems:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=54174.0

Not to be mistaken for the Silitek rubber dome version:

keyboards-f2/zenith-sk-2000re-t8236.html

(Different shape case)

Linear or tactile? Black for all keys?

Maybe UncleFan would be interested in that keyboard if you are not.