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And the gentleman that made me want to find an Alps keyboard shows up. I love your vids, Chyros. Please keep that up!
I'm looking into the keycaps to see if I can pin down an approximate age for the keyboard. So far, possibly early 1990s, but that controller chip 1980 copyright makes me question that.
I'll

Can you not remove a keycap to check switches? haha

Hi,
These PCBs have been from JLCPCB. They are pretty expensive because of how big they are. With the shipping and import fees it still comes out around $80 CAD

He must be some ultra special kind of wizard, then?

This is my ShiTec keyboard (yes, that's the brand), hooked up to a Macbook through a ridiculous chain of adapters (DIN5→PS/2→USB→USB-C). I found it at a flea market a few years ago. Has buckle springs, and a broken R key for which I swapped out the switch with the SCROLL-LOCK as I never use it.
It

I think smoking is a good thing, but I like to smoke cigars and it's best to do it with Cigar Hygrometers, but you need to know a couple of subtleties like A higher humidity can cause the cigars to expand, which effects the draw. Cuban cigars are best stored at around Rh 65%. My own humidor only has

GMK QMX

Yeah, unfortunately mine has quite a bit of chipping and problems as well. It wasn't damaged on my end, at least. It's mostly out of sight, though, so...

In their reply to the second email, the wording is not vague at all:
If the question was specifically asking what was the lubricant used in SKCM/SKCL, then that phrase is unambiguous. It also seems the real deal as this type is out-of-production for decades and nowhere to be found, so it coincides

This project looks like a lot of fun to work on. Keep it going!

See this post .

For a change, I decided that rather than reverse engineering something that would ultimately turn out to be a simple protocol with funny voltages, I would have a go at something well documented but complicated: HP-HIL .
This is a multi-device protocol, so like USB. But in a daisy-chain, so even more

Thank for your kindness, that saved my time. Appreciated it.

Agreed. Occasionally I will be eating with one hand and typing with the other and I get about half my normal speed (lol). Hell, even if they used a sort of normal layout, the build quality is terrible (rather, there is none), the keycaps are awful, the switches are extremely mediocre, and it's absurdly

Hey, some of those old rubber domes were swell! And, this is a bit heretical, some modern rubber domes are even good, and I'm not counting Topre.
In terms of the Alps revival, IMO simplified Alps are 90% the same, which is fine. So hit up those Fukka or Matias switches, my friend!

Cool, let me know, glad to help out!

you would be faster with a hammer and chisel. I had to do that for woodworking class in school. it doesn't need to be pretty if its not visible.

Thank you for your help.
Maybe you have a few websites where I can find PCBs and keycaps. Do I have to consider what when buying switches? or do they fit on any PCB?

This weekend I've been trying the converter using an ISA 5250 emulation adapter card for IBM PC that I got some time ago. The card is hooked up to an IBM 5160 PC (with its proper model F XT keyboard to get the full retro experience) and a couple of interesting things came along with those tests.
First,