Fame TH-5539 Cyrillic Aruz keyboard

snuci · 25 Feb 2018, 17:47

Here are some pics of my Fame TH-5539 keyboard with blue Aruz key switches and extra Cyrillic pad printed legends. Sadly this has yellowed somewhat but it's a decent keyboard. Note the Enter key has a white Alps key switch.

E3E · 25 Feb 2018, 17:50

The faded cyrillic makes it look like a soviet relic. It's both cool and unfortunate.

hypkx · 25 Feb 2018, 18:26

Those are some sweet doubleshot keycaps.

Chyros · 25 Feb 2018, 19:17

These are some of the most crappily made vintage boards I know, with build quality worse than that of an average newspaper. But the switches are really quite nice, and the caps are excellent ^^ . Especially these Cyrillic ones!

derzemel · 25 Feb 2018, 19:30

those FAME keycaps might be the best doubleshot keycaps made until now for alps.
Do we know who made them? Based on the build of the rest of the keyboard, I do not think they were made by Fame

Daniel Beardsmore · 25 Feb 2018, 19:31

They are [wiki]Tai-Hao TH series[/wiki].

derzemel · 25 Feb 2018, 19:45

Daniel Beardsmore wrote: They are [wiki]Tai-Hao TH series[/wiki].

thank you!

Daniel Beardsmore · 25 Feb 2018, 22:10

By the way, Fame is Tai-Hao. It's just a name they used for a while, but apparently not a brand.

snuci · 25 Feb 2018, 23:09

Daniel Beardsmore wrote: By the way, Fame is Tai-Hao. It's just a name they used for a while, but apparently not a brand.

You would know so I'm not disputing but it's odd that they would put "FAME" in their mould for the plastic switch plate and mark that on their keyboard controller. Maybe it was the name on a"series" of keyboards?

Daniel Beardsmore · 26 Feb 2018, 02:18

I never was able to get a clear explanation, mostly because it was so long ago now.