deskthority

Is there any interest in the Space Invader Keyswitches from the NMB Hi-Tek keyboards? I have four boards, minus the plastic frames, which have the white switches. Three of them have all the keycaps, the other one is missing one keycap. Let me know if there is any interest and I can provide photos and more info. Thanks

Can you show pics ?

Hey, people might want the whole boards!

Also interested!

Any nice slim ANSI Returns? Spaceinvaders are most all no good Big Ass Return. (Liked by some but certainly not most folk!)

Big Ass looks like this, btw:

Hi, thanks for letting me know there is some interest. These are KBs that I rescued from a scrapper. He was ready to scrap them and had broken off the top of the PCBs. Three of the boards appear to be in OK condition while the other board appears to have been stained in some manner. The keyswitches look to be OK. I have pictured the one KB with the missing keycap to show what all the keyswitches look like. The KBs are all marked "NMB, NMB Technologies Incorporated" and "HI-TEK Keyboard Division". The P/N on all the KBs is 117641. The other number on them is either CPC-DPC83 or CPC--DPC-B. They all have the "Compose Character" key. Let me know if there is any other information I can supply to help identify these boards. Bill

Are these the clicky kind? If so, I'd be interested in purchasing a couple for collection purposes.

Aren't the white ones always linear?

Wiki (and all wikis are inherently 100% complete, correct and authoritatively perfect; or we plebs would have to contribute to them, hah!) says two eyed white could be linear or clicky:

wiki/Hi-Tek_Series_725#Colours

I have no idea, I was just going off the wiki entry which said they can be linear or clicky.

wiki/Hi-Tek_Series_725

Hi, in looking over these KBs, I find that the keys do indeed click when pressed and released. There are only 108 keys on these KBs and the PCB is not marked as being a 725 series board. The keyswitch under the space bar is Neon Green. Hope this helps with understanding the KBs that I have.
Thanks for the questions and suggestions.
Bill

Too bad you're on the other side of the ocean... I'd really need a couple of spares!

Muirium wrote: ↑

26 May 2022, 16:08

Any nice slim ANSI Returns?

An oxymoron

These are the NCD N-108LK.

https://wiki.vintkeys.ca/NMB/oem/NCD/NCD_N-108LK