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Daniel Beardsmore wrote:Linear black Alps…? Got a reference for this? Black Alps is tactile; linear would be green, bright (not deep) yellow or brown (colour shared with tactile).

Sorry yes it's a creamish white Alps (not like the cream Alps from later Apple keyboards). It is linear switch.

I'd still like to see some photos of this if you know of any — I've never heard of any linear variant besides green, yellow and brown. A forum page would be a good wiki reference for another example of Alps colour abuse :)

(The other cream switch is Alps lock — those are cream and dark grey.)

I no longer have my A1000 but you can find pics of its keyboard all over internet, see example:
I decided to only keep the "small" Amigas so if you're interested in Space Invaders (got purple, green, yellow, white and grays, all linear with different weights) or Mitsumis (capacitive foam, with springs and buckling rubber sleaves), I'm at your service providing any detailed photos you want.

That's not an Alps "CM" switch … I don't know what that is, but it doesn't match any Alps switch I have ever seen. How do you know it's Alps? Was it actually branded? (I could spend hours trying to find photos of that particular board. I've never seen anything like that before on any keyboard.)

You're free to add any photos to the wiki of [wiki]NMB Hi-Tek[/wiki] and [wiki]Mitsumi hybrid switch[/wiki] that you want — both pages could use a lot more photos. Also, your colours don't match current knowledge on colour usage — NMB/Hi-Tek seem to have abused colour more than Alps ever did!

You're probably right, those could be some other switch. The unit I had was sporting the same switches as on the picture I linked, but I honestly don't recall any Alps branding on them. I just thought they are Alps (or some clone) because they looked similar to them (at that time I had no other Alps keyboards, now I have couple of Dell AT101s, but no A1000).
And sure, I'll make pics of my NMBs to populate wiki. Honestly those linear Space Invaders are one of my favourite switches. I like them a lot more than linear Cherries.

How did this thread end up being about amiga keyboards

Via Mitsumi switches.