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This time; a video a few of you knew was coming; a Cherry MY one! In addition to those black ones without the cable, I found a G81-3000 with one, so here it is! Hope you enjoy the video .

Actually maybe it's the shitness of the picture but I can't see any contact hands Oo .

Looks like a Stackpole or something.

mr_a500 wrote: ↑I never saw your F122 video. I just watched it now.

I might nick your accent. The way you say "Jesus tap dancing Christ" sounds impressive.

Why thank you .

mr_a500 wrote: ↑Now I remember where I saw this keyboard!

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Did you nick that idea from my F122 video? :p

WIR MUSSEN SOFORT INS KINO GEHEN JA

My pick-up line whenever I'm in Germany 8) .

I broke out my box of loose NMB dome with slider sliders and from that picture it would definitely appear the two are identical. Admittedly, all mine are white instead of grey. It's possible NMB made these for NEC, or NEC made them under license. It's a shame the board doesn't show an FCC ID, that's...

terrycherry wrote: ↑The keyboard model is PC-9801-116. It's the NEC slider with dome keyboard. Rare to see this slider.
http://www.pc-98.jp/htmls/1100000044420-10.html
http://nkmm.org/yagura/kbd/98w/

Maybe it's the picture but it looks more like NMB dome with slider to Oo . Which are incredibly common xD .

It's also got four goddamn batteries in it, what's that all about? Oo

The font does look Key Tronic-esque, I agree. And the LED windows appear identical to those on my Hi-Tek 725. Really weird. If someone here gets it, please let us know what it is!

OEMMAX MCK-101: at $20 plus shipping atm. Should be Alps SKCM Blue. Ortek is the OEM too so it might have doubleshot caps as a bonus.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Oemma ... Sw14xWOmRU

Looks like a Monterey K104 to me. Can come with white Alps, blue Alps or Montereys. All good switches. The latter switch even got its moniker from this board.

mr_a500 wrote: ↑I'm still amazed that people aren't buying these. I consider this to be the #1 NOS vintage keyboard to buy for value. ($35 Cortron/Licon hall effect keyboard is #2)

Maybe because the shipping is three times the cost of the board, not counting import taxes which could double the whole figure again? :p

It's normal, yellowing depends on the composition of the plastic used. They add bromine to ABS as a flame retardant and when it's exposed to UV it causes yellowing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retr0bright Many manufacturers of old school doubleshots (honeywell, beamsprings, etc) apparently didn't...

chzel wrote: ↑Could be, could be...
Where is that 100mm f2.8 Macro??? We need detail!

It'll be here very soon if you ship it to me tomorrow! :p

The penetration into the cap is a good solid sign of dye sublimation. Even the deepest dyesub doesn't have to go all the way through the plastic. It's not built up from behind, like doubleshot! A better picture of the top of the cap would be good. The one you have there looks like a dodgy exposure....

Depends which people. It worked splendidly for those of us who actually count. Hint: neither me nor you! Hence why I said "the people" :p . But I agree, it's worked out splendidly for the others. As have many, many other things in UK politics for a while now. Honestly, when I came to the UK three y...

Halvar wrote: ↑Ah, sorry Mu, I misunderstood that.

BTW, I paid about 20 € to send it from Germany to Austria using Hermes (about 11 kgs).

Yeah, that sounds more like normal shipping charges. In the UK however, privatisation hasn't QUITE worked out all that well for the people.

Linkert wrote: ↑Been working on a layout for a ISO 88-key wasdkeyboard. Came up with a mix of ANSI, ISO, Swedish and Dvorak.

DvörÅNSISÖ?

They are most definitely dyesubbed. I paid $5 for it, so (in the name of keyboard knowledge) I could slice a key in half and confirm the dyesub definitively with photographs. Sorry, I misread that at first, I thought you HAD sliced one in half and confirmed it yet. Anyway, I have hundreds of these ...

The switches are known for being quite fragile and easily pulled apart; not generally a sign of quality manufacture. I'd like to give them a try sometime, though - maybe I'll run into them somewhere along the way .

Excellent! That's good, that way I don't have to correct my Acer vids xD . Thanks!

Cool, so they ARE dyesubbed, right? Just out of curiosity, how did you test it?

Don't bother with the acetone test. I've tested it on my KB-101A as well as on several 6300 and 6500 models. Definitely all ABS.

Must've been a special request from this company. Cool ^^ .

gogusrl wrote: ↑I've got some very scratchy green alps, gonna give this guide a shot. Love your videos Chyros.

Thanks mate, glad you like them . Hope you can fix them!

Excellent vid, Chyros. I had no idea Alps were serviceable without desoldering. They sure are, it's one of the key design advantages of Alps! :) I'm usually wary about watching videos — I read a lot faster than almost anyone can talk, and loathe the awkward pauses and errors videos so often include...

No worries, glad it was of help to you .

I made a video tutorial a while ago on how to clean and maintain Alps switches. Hope it helps . Some switches that have seen particularly heavy use are simply at the end of their lifetime though.

1992, that's a very late one for green Alps. By that time it's three years off the MouseFan Alps timeline already (although I think some companies were still using what must've been leftover stock for lock lights on some boards). It's also the only instance I've ever heard of green Alps on a Focus. ...

How about keyboards with no homing bumps or deeper dish or any modification at all? :p

When I talk to people about old keyboards all that they can recall about them is that they were loud, or "clicky" as they call them (irrespective of whether they actually were). They never mention or remember that they were better to type on. To them it's just obsolete rubbish.