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This was a keyboard find by a DT member, Parak. Something I originally identified as foam'n'foil, but didn't realize it was clicky too!!
Unfortunately I don't know which Kaypro model this keyboard was for, just that it could be, at the earliest, the Kaypro 386 Keyboard.
In terms of being Foam'n'Foil, the switch is pretty standard. I haven't yet gone and compared all the known capacitive sensing PCBs yet (something that needs to be done before I/or someone else) can start on categorizing the Foam'n'Foil switches.
What is interesting here, is that it has an Alps-like click leaf in each of the switches!
The keyboard was manufactured by Deyi Technology Co. in Taiwan as the Delta Enhanced Keyboard. The PCB and FCC number indicate that it was built around 1988.
Kaypro 386 Keyboard
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
- Daemon Raccoon
- Location: Flyover Country, United States
- Main keyboard: Model M SSK 1391472
- Main mouse: CST2545W-RC LTrac
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
An ALPS-esque click leaf, MX Compatible Caps, and Capacitive Foam and Foil. all of my wat.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Put some Round 5s on it, I dare!
Capacitative clicky switches, how the world needs more of these. How does the sound and feel compare to a Model F?
Capacitative clicky switches, how the world needs more of these. How does the sound and feel compare to a Model F?
- Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Clicky foam and foil?
Interestingly, those keycaps remind me a lot of the Monterey K101/K102 keycaps.
Edit: Yes, they're the same keycaps. The case designs are also so similar, that it's likely that they came from the same factory too. It's quite possible (and pretty likely) that, like most public-facing companies, Monterey have no manufacturing capacity of their own.
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
The keycaps are indeed Cherry MX Compatible.
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- Location: geekhack ergonomics subforum
- Favorite switch: Alps plate spring; clicky SMK
- DT Pro Member: -
In case someone wants one of these from US ebay:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=80464
http://www.ebay.com/itm/152014659718
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=80464
http://www.ebay.com/itm/152014659718
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0194
- Contact:
I picked this one up a while back and realized this board is exactly the same as Haata's minus the Kaypro 386 branding.
Definitely a unique and uncommon switch design. Foam and foil the way it should have been. Now I just need to modify these switches with Topre springs to make this a truly Frankenstein switch with it's "ALPS-esque click leaf, MX Compatible Caps, and Capacitive Foam and Foil".
Definitely a unique and uncommon switch design. Foam and foil the way it should have been. Now I just need to modify these switches with Topre springs to make this a truly Frankenstein switch with it's "ALPS-esque click leaf, MX Compatible Caps, and Capacitive Foam and Foil".