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As a note, mechanical keyboard meetups are now happening again in NYC. I have signed up for the next one in April. I hope to bring a new Model F keyboard as well as a new beam spring keyboard. This will be my first meetup since 2019! Hoping to see some forum members there. https://nyckeyboardmeetup...

Hello there, i wanna remove the click/tactile leaf of the Black Alps and make them linear. Now my question is, are the Black Alps without click leaf build similiar to the Green Alps? Or do the Green Alps differ significantly? thx I am not an expert, but they are similar when linearized. Green Alps ...

I have a >100 orange Alps in stock (also in reasonably good condition). What I want to try is to get a bunch of NOS switches, so I can compare them with used ones. The idea behind it is to compare the sliders, springs, etc. with the NOS and get a feel of the differences. I am not an expert in Alps s...

I have to admit - that looks gorgeous ... thanks for posting

And the layout would be not too terrible on a modern system ...

Just received a bunch of NOS White Alps. I couldn't find any Orange Alps so far, so if anybody has seen any NOS Orange, please let me know.

Huge thanks for sharing - seems like those are not available at the moment in the US store "Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."

Sadly I couldn't be there Happens, when life hits you unexpected ...

Just received a bunch of NOS Blue Alps. I have only compared them quickly with my heavily used but cleaned Blue Alps and the difference is there. To get a real world idea of how much this difference manifests I will solder them into a PCB and will also put the used switches into it for comparison. W...

Muirium wrote: ↑

14 Jan 2023, 13:15

Black badge on a beige shell… did they come that way? Looks dashing, in any case.

Nope - I had a black one laying around and I couldn't resist

I couldn't replicate on my Windows 11. When I put it to sleep, I could wake it up and log-in. Could also be a BIOS thing. You might also want to flash a firmware with NKRO disabled. Some BIOS' hate NKRO.

I gave a quick glance to your post, promising to myself to deep in later and i liked your job. Well done and welcome to the F107 club, my most satisfying model F.IMG_20210403_123217.jpg Mine went to the chrome-plating shop. :D I always loved that chrome look ... amazing. When I restored mine it was...

I will test with my Windows PC tomorrow. If I forget, please remind me....

Have you connected it directly to a USB port of the PC or are you going through a Hub, Screen, etc?

Indeed, looks great. I love the overall configuration of it and ANSI mod. I kept the Num Pad with all individual keys as it gives me a bit more room for additional keys (as if they are needed on a F107 ). You also did catch an F107 in good shape. I need to powder coat mine at some point.

Muirium wrote: ↑

12 Jan 2023, 22:18

To me, necro is just when some daftie shows up asking years old posts for followup, like they were yesterday. Closing threads isn’t our way here. No way could DT forbid SSKs!

This is the way:

SirConner wrote: ↑

12 Jan 2023, 05:54

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I've been looking at MX caps that had f24 but have not found any yet.

The DROP + Matt3o MT3 /dev/tty Keycap Set can be purchased with all the keys needed for the B122, imho. Find below the picture of the Kit: Extras

Muirium wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2023, 16:46

DT is the new* internet-order Russian bride the whole world can love!

*Well, maybe she’s getting on a bit, and boy does she have opinions! But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you know. If only she matched her profile pics…

Made my day

Muirium wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2023, 17:23

Absolutely! Bookmarked for future use.

Same here -thanks!

thefarside wrote: ↑

06 Jan 2023, 20:09

This is a beautiful keyboard. Not sure about the switches but it doesn’t look promising:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/125703907160
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That red "KILL" button .....

I wish there would be a resource from ALPS available working there during those days, when the switches were produced. Information or more details would be so interesting (e,g. were red sliders used for pre-production switches?). There must be the one or other person around who has that information;...

I kinda started to abandon all of my other boards ever since this one hit my doorstep ... IMG_20230105_155202.jpg Nothing special, really. I tried to keep it classic while adding a little spice with the terminal keys, the secondary legends and the blue windows key. German legends and ISO ... looks ...

I bought a Datacomp DFK777 on ebay and am waiting to get it in the mail. It looked fine from the photos but the listing says it "needs cleaned" so I'm expecting it to be at least less than pristine. Old me would assume that deep cleaning all of the switches and wax mod lubing them would get the bes...

I'm quite happy with my repro F77, too. first bought an identical F62, but realised, that i can't live with arrow keys and the delete on the fn-layer. The neat trick with the right Alt, right shift etc. as arrow keys doesn't do it for me either, since i need the alt graphic key for typing all the t...

They look amazing - especially in real life! Love your work. I wish more people could see and try out the typing on your keyboard. The look and feel is one thing, but the sound is absurdly good. My wife didn't' t like any of my keyboards and the typing sounds. With the keymacs, she claims that she n...

.. Alps better sounding than Model F? Even my beloved blues aren’t there, I find (in a Focus FK-555 or solid aluminium cased Alps64). Though, as you know too, the whole keyboard affects the sound. My Kishsaver is a hop, skip and a leap ahead of my AT in The Noise department: in quality as well as q...

It is all very subjective, imho. I do own all Model F variants from Ellipse and a ton from IBM at good condition, including the F107. The quality from Ellipse is on par with the Model F from the past. The key feel is very close and the sound changes over time as it always has been. I even replaced 5...

Muirium wrote: ↑

25 Nov 2022, 11:36

Thanks Darkcruix!

If you build an Arm binary for scdiscontroller too, I’ll wrap them all up in a zip in the OP for neatness.

Your wish is my command

A reminder for anyone using the controller, (including anyone who might have recently bought an SSK from me :lol:) you must use scascontroller to assemble your config files. It is not included in the M1 zip. You’ll have to run it through Rosetta, like me. I have no idea how Darkcruix and the other ...