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crankykat wrote: ↑I found this computer in the trash outside of my lab. I think it must be a proprietary model....very interested in seeing what you all thought about it. I am very much a newbie to the mechanical keyboard world so any help would be appreciated.

Should be fujitsu leaf spring 3rd generation

I haven't seen a blue cube for cheap in a long time, at that price you could even get a prebuilt soarer converter from orihalcon.

I think it's wiki/MX_mount_SMK_clone_series but it might be another SMK vintage linear clone

Keybug wrote: ↑Sweet Jesus! What's inside?! Sadly expensive, as part of a bundle...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Epson- ... SwB2Naz2rI

Prototopre photos-f62/epson-q603a-t12772.html

I have had a very similar problem when replacing the controller of my olympia people keyboard, where I soldered in a switch in wrong orientation after cleaning it, causing its internal jumper to connect a row to all columns. Due to my board not having diodes, every key in that row suffered from the ...

The package arrived safely yesterday, I tested the Model M2 just now on my Win10 PC and it works without problems. I had to reboot in safe mode for it to enable the PS2 port first, maybe this was the reason it didn't work on your computer.

I hope I can join this year, in which case I'm going to bring a lot of vintage boards such as fujitsu leafspring, beamspring, micro switch etc.

Quick update on the state of the restoration; case and keycaps are fully cleaned, metal stem inserts are pulled from the switches (luckily without any breakage!) and they were fully disassembled. Today the 2nd batch of housings is being ultrasonically cleaned, unfortunaly the foam is in worse condit...

Note that later models of these MCK 142 come with pad printed keycaps and SKBM white. I don't know how to recognise them for sure, but my late version has a purple PS2 connector.

I can second the great build quality of leopold boards (have a fc660m with mx brown). The doubleshot PBT caps are truly excellent, I think I prefer them even over most OG cherry caps.

Thanks now I bouht one too in drunken stupor

Based on the LED placement, font, and the fact that other similar wang keyboards used keytronic foam and foil, I'm guessing that's what it uses too.

Hi,
I'm interested in the Oak Full Travel Membrane board as well as all the freebies if kj5kjm5 doesn't take them.

While procrastinating the restoration of the IBM 4978 due to the mental and physical pain caused by removing the especially tight metal stem inserts, I got this keyboard with the help of a community member: A 1970 Micro Switch magnetic reed keyboard, possibly made for a key punch or early terminal. ...

Bad news, I found a keyboard which matches it more closely which is simple conductive rubberdome over membrane: https://www.flickr.com/photos/triplehaa ... 9026523137

I don't know of any hi tek AT&T boards with this genreal layout, so far I have only seen keytronic foam and foil, alps SKCM brown and ITW magnetic valve.
This board seems to be protopre indeed: photos-f62/burroughs-b25-k2-3675-6104-t12617.html

The seller's picture is too lousy to tell for sure, but that's a fairly good match given all the jpeg grain. Well, ugh, the more I look the less I'm sure. Why can't images be infinitely detailed like in the movies! Looks more like this at first glance: switch.jpg I'm thinking it's perhaps an Alps i...

I'm pretty sure they are rubberdome.

It's a wiki/Datalux_SpaceSaver

A military keyboard with Pendar SFL 5101 reed switches , will make a more in depth post on this once I get it converted. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1831/42120501590_a666c00e53_b.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1775/42120494060_4d84c6ee81_b.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1772/42120564000_0...

I'm pretty sure those are RAFI made keycaps, have seen them on several of their older boards like tgis one for example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/93-Rafi-keys-o ... 2635080738

Looks like Cherry M8 caps which fit on MX, they are pretty nice and have much more concave top surface than DSA. The switches however are absolutely horrible, they get dirty quickly due to lack of top housing and have only 2.5mm travel.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/Trackball-Tasta ... 3298278442 Possibly marquardt? Appears to have similar colour to the case below the keycaps so might well be rubberdome too

701c wrote: ↑Can anyone identify the switches in this at&t keyboard? https://imgur.com/a/Oeo4hqj

Keycaps look like keytronic, so foam and foil.

Rebadged Scorpius 104 for $20: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-PC-Accessories-Keyboard-w-Pin-Converter-mechanical-Clicky-p-n-P20035/302821055321?hash=item46818a9b59:g:tT4AAOSwEZdaDUIP Still the best rubber domes I've felt to date! 10 supposedly NOS scorpius boards for 60€, mini group buy anyone? h...

Unless there are several versions, they should be Fujitsu Peerless: https://www.flickr.com/photos/triplehaa ... 6038851866

Rebadged Scorpius 104 for $20: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-PC-Accessories-Keyboard-w-Pin-Converter-mechanical-Clicky-p-n-P20035/302821055321?hash=item46818a9b59:g:tT4AAOSwEZdaDUIP Still the best rubber domes I've felt to date! 10 supposedly NOS scorpius boards for 60€, mini group buy anyone? h...

I have created an album of some pictures of Series/1 internals on flickr here . that's fucking beautiful. how big is it in comparison to a regular Battleship? It's slightly less wide and slightly deeper, the key density is pretty good for beamspring standards: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1782/428...

I recently purchased a working IBM Series/1 system with a 4978 Display Terminal. Due to greater familiarity, the first thing I want to do is to restore the keyboard and convert it to USB in an easily reversible manner, so that I can continue to use it for its original purpose. When I opened the keyb...

Got some big beamspring board today