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I have about 200 boards now, and if I tried to do the glass display case thing the cost and space requirements would just be prohibitive. I mostly do the postal box thing, stacked vertically along a wall in the spare bedroom.

Me too. Just the keyboards though!

Ha Ha Ha Ha I had a similar experience at a local thrift shop. It was for sale for six dollars. I left it on the shelf.

Which are the best alps clicky switches? And which keyboard have it?


For me nothing beats blue alps in good condition in terms of alps switches. I'm typing this on a blue alps board branded 'computerland' ( I have a history with them :-) )

Funny you should ask this. I've accumulated a ...

I'm at somewhere between 100 and 200 keyboards now....I....think...

I keep meaning to write up a document describing the relevant features of each board. Partly for the pleasure of doing so ( I'd have to record which keyboard was used to type the description of what board too!) But things have ...

30s? 40s? 50s? Muwahahahahahaha!

Mr. Harris,

Many have expressed far better than I the gratitude we have for both the wonderful keyboards themselves and that you are taking time to answer all these questions.

Therefore I will just say thank you, and God bless.

I like and respect Tom. Thanks to his entertaining and informative videos I've
been inspired to try many switches and boards that I would not have otherwise.

Excelsior!

Mmmmm Doom. When I came to my present job back in the early 1990s I and a much more senior faculty member got into Doom. Good times.

Recently I got one of the free Doom variants and it's still great fun. I've been playing it using an Acer kb101A

Hey! I use my vintage keyboards to write programs!!!!

In Fortran.

Because I like it like that.

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Well the way I heard it, a female employee gotten tired of a male employee, maybe her boss Sexually Harassing her all the time, in a fit picked up said KB and knock him out. She then continue working.

Talk about Well Made.
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And the keyboard was good too!

I have two computers at the office, one the laptop/docking station the University supplied me with; that one is so locked down I can't do much with so I brought in a godzilla class tower to actually get things done.

For the laptop I use a black Unicomp Model M 122, and the tower a square badge IBM ...

They aren't. The weighting sucks ass and they aren't as exceptionally smooth as Chyros (and subsequently the entire vint keeb community) jerks them off to be.


It's almost as if keyfeel is subjective and dependant on condition or something.

Dude, I think you may be on to something!

But ...

I may have answered my own question. Today I decided that I would look at one of the space invaders boards that is nonfunctional. Picking up the box it was in, I found the bottom of the box wasn't secure and the board slid diagonally to the floor along the long axis. On picking it up I found several ...

Very nice! Fujitsu leaf spring are a lovely switch and this looks great.

I'm somewhere between 100 and 200 boards now. I don't have a problem!!!! The spare bedroom has plenty of room left.

Thanks for the reply. The two I got recently had lots of bubble wrap but it doesn't look as good as that.

Thanks for the response. I may do a little experimenting on the one that's in worse shape.

Recently I've had some odd experiences with clicky space invaders keyboards. One arrived with a great number of key caps off, some switchs non functional, two switchs were actually broken, and two of the key caps had bits broken off and the bits were to be found attached to the switch housing.

The ...

As long as the keys are in good shape and send scan codes to the computer, I'd like to buy it from you. If you will pm me so we can discuss payment method

How is the condition of the switchs in the Chicony KB-5181 - Monterey Blue - $40


Honestly they feel pretty good. They feel smooth and there is no binding on off center key presses. There are just those few keys of V, H, and O that I was having some issues with when testing it out before I ...

How is the condition of the switchs in the Chicony KB-5181 - Monterey Blue - $40

PM'd

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Nice looking board if you can stand the tiny bezels.

Yes, I'd never seen anything like it. At least the board inside is in great shape

Can you please mention how the case broke so others can be more careful when handling it?


Sure. Now this case was extremely yellow, almost orange, so it must have been exposed to the sun or in some other bad environment for a long time.

My plan was to take it apart and then either retrobrite ...

So I had this Tandy 3000, switchs in great condition but case very yellow and dodgy looking. Recently I got another in much better shape case wise, so decided to try to do a little work on the first one. As you might guess the case disintegrated in my hands and so I'm looking for a replacement case.

Hey all,

I recently got a keyboard with clicky blue SMK switches but there's a lot of binding and the switches are not close to as pleasant as those in my Siig minitouch.

Chyros published some videos on how to clean and rejuvenate Alps switches, (many thanks Tom!) Does anyone have any advice on ...

Why, I've been inspired by this thread to dig out a cherry mx black board I got from ebay a while back. The level of keyfeel pleasure is just as I remember.

Currently at my office I'm using an Apple Extended Keyboard (orange alps, yum). The homing bumps on d and k were bugging me so I swapped the key caps on f and d also with j and k.

I was just thinking today that I ought to swap a lot of the keys around to discourage peeking....also to mess with a ...