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Nothing personal, but why are the images blurry over the 3/4 of the surface? To add the artistic touch, or some physical/lens/macro... limitation? I personally would like to see the whole picture not just the minimal focused part. I take a lot of pics, I usually just put the ones I like in the post...

So I picked up this keyboard, mostly because I didn't have one of these in the proper case. But it also had something odd...USB?! Otherwise, the keyboard the same as an a keyboard I posted a couple months ago: NEC KBL-729EC-103 Also uses the NEC Oval Switches. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1652/244...

Finally! After travelling way too much, releasing the Whitefox, another run of the Ergodox as well as prepping the KType for CES, I have time to organize another meetup! The next meetup will be on Saturday, February 27, 2016 @ 1 PM Massdrop HQ 100 Bush Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, CA 94104 One ...

Also, that particular connector is *THE WORST*. It's a discontinued DIN variant. I managed to find some by sheer accident a while back. It has a sort of horse-shoe shape so you really can't use the other DIN connectors.

Are those doubleshots Topre compatible? I know some brother keycaps are. Sorta, they fit on, and the keys press fine. But because they only have one slot, the keycaps angle forward. Are these switches actually nice to type on? I also really really like the way you take your pictures Haata, they jus...

Another Prototopre switch used by Epson. As I mentioned in this post the other day, I currently suspect that these domes were designed/OEM'd by Brother for a variety of different companies. Unfortunately, there are very few markings on the pcb, outside what seems to be the PCB fab identification (GC...

So I'd always passed over these keyboards thinking "probably just another dome...". But was I so wrong. I have 3 keyboards that look very similar, all with different switches. I suspect Burroughs/Unisys possibly used even more OEMs. This one uses ITW Low-profile magnetic valve switches. And for thos...

Basically all Topre cap sense keyboards have domes like this. At least all the ones I've dismantled anyways.

Pretty sure it's uniform 45g for all the switches (my preferred Topre weighting ).

Oops, been a bit lazy this past week. Oh well, I've been busy this weekend :mrgreen: Here's something that I usually don't acquire...Topre! https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1625/24392913471_239e448a7c_k.jpg DSC03149 https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1464/24179715250_eca3d88eb9_k.jpg DSC03154 https://farm...

I joined solely to park my username :lol: Tbh, I was getting grumpy at the GeekHack forums around that time. And DT seemed to be attracting everyone that actually cared about my recent finds. The wiki was nice/needed addition though it took me almost a year until I decided to contribute...again, bla...

I generally call this switch "Prototopre". I've seen it as early as 1982 in some Epson/Seikosha keyboards. Topre, didn't even start looking into office/business equipment until 1983, but the designs are very similar. My theory is that either some engineers that did the original design or used it as ...

I think it may have identifiable parts, though there's more transistor logic going on in the board than what IBM did it seems. This particular board has a bunch of rework which is annoying when reverse engineering.

So, I was going to make a protocol converter for one of my Seikosha keyboards (Epson). https://farm1.staticflickr.com/618/23622904432_24e99549ad_k.jpg Untitled But, I found that sent out ASCII rather than press/release signals so I moved on to another keyboard (this was around the time I was doing a...

I've made the pads work even with my finger, so it might be possible. Though I'm not sure the thresholding is setup correctly.
My guess is that the pads are bare copper so the spring would have to be at least non-conductive.

Now that I've mostly recovered from CES, I can start posting keyboards again! I may not be able to post a keyboard every day, but I should be able to post one every few days. So, this keyboard, I thought it was just another dome...turns out I was wrong. It's something very odd. It's a foam'n'foil do...

As long as the connector is the same (Epson used some odd shaped DIN connectors that are hard to get/find) you should be fine. I haven't seen any DIN cables that did any sort of cross-over (like ethernet and serial cables often do).

seebart, I have some pictures I took quite a while ago as well: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjMRLcfq

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Also, doing a quick search, it turns out I gave someone a bad day snagging it on ebay...
However, they've also confirmed it's an MDS keyboard (Mohawk Data Sciences) key to tape system keyboard.

http://bradhodge.ca/blog/?p=563

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Uses similar keycaps to the Burroughs D8585 Key Board

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So I've had this keyboard for a while, but hadn't gotten around to taking full pictures of it (partially because it was hard to clean without bleeding over everything :? ). My estimate it's from around 1966 (with a single 1970 replacement switch). The plastic house of the older switches is somewhat ...

Got this pretty cheap and NIB a while back. A Unikey KB-7001 with Alps SKCM White Switches. Probably from around 1996 https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1612/23837439841_ba910a6c17_k.jpg DSC02378 https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5663/23552099419_633ba4f988_k.jpg DSC02367 https://farm6.staticflickr.com/573...

Here's a keyboard, sorta crappy really. But, it has a capacitive Foam'n'Foil switches I haven't seen before. It's made (or at least FCC'd) by Deyi Technology Co. sometime around 1987. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5734/23274243804_6704c85266_k.jpg DSC02366 https://farm1.staticflickr.com/708/2387621...

Hmm, I don't think my keyboards have a latching Capslock key.

I'd been meaning to pic one of these typewriters up for a while (as I didn't have this Marquardt switch variant yet), Marquardt two-finger typewriter switch (as mentioned in the wiki). They are decent linears I guess, but nothing amazing. I still get a kick out of the Enter key stabilizer though :D ...

Nice! Haven't seen one of those BUD keypads in a while. Did you buy one from me Okeg?

I'd say sometime around 1983.

I'm always sorta afraid to do tear-downs of typewriters...mostly because it takes *forever*. This one didn't help, because I have a demo video of the portions that are still working (including the VFD!). But those keycaps, they beckoned :mrgreen: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5660/23235000013_6cd60...

kk, yeah I'll see what I can do. Still trying to figure out how to best focus on what I want. Because I wear glasses most of the time, it's a pain to use the view-finder. I need to figure out how to configure the camera to not zoom in to do manual focus. Will have to look into how to configure the I...

Very rare to see the original of Futaba low-profile linear on keyboard. http://deskthority.net/wiki/Futaba_low-profile_linear I don't think it's called GRI KBM-LP because this original switch having the white plastic lock clicks on shell. And the later variant of GRI KBM-LP having the black plastic...

Might not be near a computer this evening, so just posting it really early instead 8-) This luggable of sorts uses the known-about but not common in keyboards GRI KBM-LP switches. There's a really blurry GRI logo stamped onto the keyboard PCB (and the pcb is characteristic of GRI). Unfortunately I w...