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I am curious how old our fellow cineraphhael is?

Is he old enough to play the really really dirty blue Alps games with some of us?

I recently went through this very transition, ... if you like the Buckling Spring feel ... with Cherry MX Greens on my home desktop ... his one with MX Clears (for silence, but with a tactile bump) and an installed set of o-rings to reduce the bottoming out noise. ... I hate I hate Buckling Springs...

Leopold 660c if arrow key cluster is a must

Otherwise if you're a bit more adventurous to try a "new" (to you) but popular layout:
HHKB Pro2

Is there a list that specifies what switches came in pine, bamboo or both? I know that they are differentiated by age but like all things Alps that's sometimes hard to pin down. Most people will be familiar with this timetable at the bottom of this page by Mousefan: http://mousefan.telcontar.net/al...

Keyboards have drastically dropped in price, but I'm curious how much it would be after CARBON TAX . It's moot. We'll all die from starvation, flooding and lack of fresh water before voters agree to implement a carbon tax :p This is a provoking and interesting funny thread in many ways. Let me chim...

As I comb the web looking for things, I frequently find interesting pages related to keyboards. I am not wiki savvy, so I will post them in this thread as I come across them. Maybe someone will want to add them in an appropriate spot. First up is a text page that describes how to use the same keybo...

... hanging a dingaling off the side of my iPad is something I just don’t do anymore ... I hope I am more willing to take my carefully lubed HHKB with me to visit public places... And that lightning cable to USB connector can be another annoyance too: the lightning cable of Apple is the fastest to ...

Nice, but we'll need to agree on a default slogan that it reverts to when the programming chip fails. A good old normal machine washable and under the sun dry-able and wet T-shirt contest usable T-shirt would be good... if actuate-able then even better. By the way, I hate bamboo Alps switches and t...

I like BT and I installed Hasu BT controller with a 2600mAh battery on my Pro2 and ended up not having used the BT function for more than a few times with my iPad. Especially after I discovered the magic line to limit current draw on config.h: #define USB_MAX_POWER_CONSUMPTION 60 (or any value 100 o...

Perhaps we could upgrade the tee shirt to wearable tech, so that the slogan could be easily changed or rotated among several. Nice, but we'll need to agree on a default slogan that it reverts to when the programming chip fails. A good old normal machine washable and under the sun dry-able and wet T...

What is qmk? QMK = quantum mechanical keyboard. It is firmware that enables complete programming of keyboards equipped with certain processors. See the GitHub site: https://github.com/qmk It's a project that borrows a lot from TMK, actually originally a fork of TMK https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboa...

How the cool kids respond to the question, "What's your Alps status?" It's complicated. Hahahahahaha :lol: ... I must say, I rather liked that myself. We should have tee shirts made with that slogan, perhaps illustrated with an exploded view of an SKCM complicated [blue] Alps switch from the DT wik...

I don't think there's any absolute advantage there for one key cap profile over the others. What I think is important can be the homing keys (bars, or bumps, or being a "deep dish" for the J & K key caps on a QWERTY keyboard). https://i.imgur.com/kFxqOm8.jpg My typing speed on my ThinkPad X220 can b...

Here is the patches i was talking about. This dude has been selling it on mech market and so far i know he isn't in jail :). https://imgur.com/a/QJZIJNe < Same logo as what OP posted. I've seen this one. Apart from the color is a bit too different, I thought, how I can apply this? Sew it onto my ke...

... […] will this be legal? If not, how much tweak should I make to this design before such a metal sticker can be legally produced? […] At least so much that it cannot be identified as or mistaken for the legit one. Then this is the loophole and debatable part. https://www.plixer.com/wp-content/up...

You'd do better to support businesses within the community, such as web stores like The Keyboard Company, Candykeys, or Caps Unlocked. The latter store is offering something that is both getting towards your price range and sport cherry switches, which are the most popular brand. KBDfans is kind of...

Or directly from China: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cube-Docking-Keyboard-CDK09-Dual-USB-Rotary-Shaft-Magnetic-Docking-Touchpad-10-6inch-for-Cube-Mix/32810818946.html But those do not have silent switches. From what I know the following are silent switches: Cherry silent black / red Cherry clone...

... Alps is still trading. Then again, it's not their logo anymore. And it's not for a commercial purpose. Really no idea xD . Exactly. And I think a while ago some custom PCBs in some GB reused this old logo of Alps also. I think such a metal sticker if legally made will have a market, say at leas...

If I create a metal sticker for just the upper part of this old and no longer used Alps logo, will this be legal?

If not, how much tweak should I make to this design before such a metal sticker can be legally produced?

... the non-standard homing dots drove me crazy ... the stem broke ... to have an Alps endgame Apple's non-standard homing drove me crazy too, how unfortunate about the stem breaking. I think plastic compression and tensile strength can be stronger than torque strength to start breakage, you have t...

What is small? Is Tenkeyless small enough, or keyboards below 60%? The HHKB Type-S fits exactly what you want, but not price-wise - $250. An average build is easily north of $100 or $180 (if you buy them new, as low cost as e.g. pcb $30, switches $30, case $15, keycaps $30, cable $5 - if you solder ...

The gray caps match well with the Silicon Graphics case.
How do you use the old case with the cool logo?

I love the non-green SKCL switches, they’re among the rarest Alps finds.
How does these creams compare to the greens? Heavier? Lighter?

Congrats!

don't know what is inside this Lite

https://www.ebay.com/itm/123436659122

Testing... Opss...

Any updates? 7bot has not responded for a while. I think 7bot broke after migration to this new forum platform. I am also waiting to hear from 7bit about the new ordering system. Thanks buddy. Do you know if there is an iPhone app for this forum that we can use? You may have to ask the elders here:...

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30 Jan 2019, 14:55

Any updates? 7bot has not responded for a while.

I think 7bot broke after migration to this new forum platform.
I am also waiting to hear from 7bit about the new ordering system.

Sculpted multistation boards are even better :D It really is the holy grail...linear too. You mean... like this: https://preview.ibb.co/h71XZc/DSC2937.jpg https://preview.ibb.co/cnVFnx/DSC2942.jpg :yum: I really want the JP spherical one, but I feel I'm already a bit spoiled with this one... https:...

that's not to say the design can't be optimized, but there is certainly a difference between cutting costs and cutting corners. This BTW, referring to the OP - I believe not many pro gamers / gaming guru like clicky switches - most of them like linear switches. Plus, if you look at the force curve,...

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28 Jan 2019, 17:23

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28 Jan 2019, 16:47

What board are they from? It looks FANTASTIC.

Thanks! And yeah, as DatOtherJosh said, they are from a Japanese Multistation board!

I knew it, I was hoping that was from an NEC board.
IBM Multistation is my holy grail vintage Alps board. RIP.