deskthority

Their site is just horrible! But I hear their service is good. Well I find the design very friendly for some reason; feels like you're dealing with real keyboard enthusiasts and not just salespersons. The color, sorry, colour palette is also very British I dare say :D The two Filcos I got from them ...

Well, the conductive arc (AKA buckling rubber sleeve) variant is one of the most horrible switches I have ever had the displeasure of using.
I have noticed that there are slight variations. The Mitsumi switches in my Amiga 500 has a mushy landing, but the switches in my Amiga 1200 are quite crisp ...

For buckling spring: try a nice new Unicomp, for sale in Britain at the Keyboard Company . Ok so I really have to buy glasses next... I got my two Filcos from KeyboardCo already. Last time I checked if they had Unicomps I simply searched for 'unicomp' on their main page and found nothing but some ...

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:"Mitsumi" is to switches what "Adobe" is to computer programs.

I work with 2d and 3d artists and had to at that

Thanks for the cool idea! I'm going to start hunting for an old Mitsumi

Which one? Mitsumi are known for two different switch families: miniature mechanical switches, and single-sheet membrane. (In reality they made a variety of designs, but those are the two common ones.)

Well I don't know for ...

If you want to go authentic, you could pick up an old keyboard that Mitsumi made for the PC. ...

Thanks for the cool idea! I'm going to start hunting for an old Mitsumi; this could really be fun. I have a C64, an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1200 lying around. The keys of the A500 always felt super ...

Ha, that's my story, a couple of years back. Now I only type otaku because labels confuse me (because I usually have the keyboard mapped to something different)..

Haha yes full Otaku is the way to go! I'm coming from an Azerty layout and decided to learn touch-typing in US Qwerty because I wanted ...

Wow... Thank you all for your great insight! I wish I could have answered more quickly but I cut my index finger while slicing bread and did not want to stain my new Filco Ninja :)

I like the buckling spring. If you can cope with the activation force, it's the smoothest switch. All vertical leaf ...

Hello Deskthority,

I'm a relatively "long-time" lurker just now joining the forum. I stumbled upon the wiki as I was trying to find more information about the switches in my old Amiga 1200 keyboard... Even though these Mitsumis were not produced anymore I wanted to find a good keyboard with a ...