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Have any pictures?

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Any *more* pictures? The back might be useful!

My Cherry knowledge is super weak. But that Big Ass Enter does look suspect…

davkol wrote:There's a picture in the OP, linked from Imgur: http://i.imgur.com/lADNexA.jpg

From this, are we to understand that you're not in possession of the keyboard?

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I don't recognize that, but at least it seems like there is a green pcb that can be seen through both holes, so it could indeed be mechanical. Maybe Alps.

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Nice. There even seems to be a chance to get blue Alps switches!

I can't be sure — Google Translate is always annoyingly vague with Japanese.

But do bear in mind this: the photo shows blue Alps (1985–1988) alongside bamboo white Alps (believed to indicate production from 1993 onwards). That combination is impossible. If it was produced as white was being introduced (i.e. the blue Alps were old stock), you'd see pine white. Likewise, if the white switch is a special variety, it would still be pine. Not unless bamboo switches date to five years earlier than expected.

I suspect it was subject to a switch swap similar to Sandy's — Sandy noted previously that switch swapping is common in Japan, which means that I'm hesitant to accept any SKCL/SKCM keyboard as legitimate until sufficient evidence surfaces that the switches seen are the stock switches. When photos turned up here of a Focus FK-2002 with blue Alps, I mentioned it only tentatively on the wiki in case that was another swap, as that's the only example of blue Alps found to date — the rest are all white Alps.