deskthority

Try a different adapter (I had some brand new that didn't work at all). But, my bet is that you may need an active adapter for that keyboard to work flawlessly.

Number 2 and 3 -- never seen one of these. For the number 1, besides what seebart already mentioned as the black Dell, there is an industry-customized (Alps, PS/2) Northgate with black body, black keycaps, and blue F keys.

This seems to be a rebranded KeyTronic KB3270 Plus, so, yes, it should be a typical KeyTronic foam/foil.

I've been struggling with word choices in my country's constitution. Many of the things we consider rights in America have been turned into privileges or are privileges by definition (and have been since the constitution was written). I'd like to discuss the idea... You can think about this as a di...

WASD is selling MX stabilizers/lube:
http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/ ... parts.html

Topre switches .. IMO, still the best around

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Excellent find, hypkx! Seems like an Alps clone switch, or (less likely) maybe unbranded Alps. Nice.

Interesting choice of trade-offs there. If I had to choose between sacrificing the numpad or the nav cluster, I would definitely ditch the numpad. I use the arrow keys and Home/End/PgUp/PgDn way too much to ever give them up. If I had to write code without those keys, I think I'd go insane (hint: h...

Great stuff, Mu!!! I think I'm biased towards RF typing sound, but that NovaTouch seems to be really improved with the silencing rings.

Hope it works better than 8/8.1 ... I used Win 10 Preview and it looked OK, not as good as Win 7, but considering 2 major failures in the "Vista series" (Vista itself and 8) the 10 should be OK. For business uses I'll probably wait for Win 10 Service Pack 1 or whatever is now equivalent to it.

For the MX mount I usually get: - Vortex (PBT or PBT+POM for lights); quite a few "blister" issues in some newer batches - Leopold/Varmilo (PBT) easily my favorite - Tai-Hao (PBT) - Signature Plastics (ABS) For Topre (these are expensive no matter how you look at it): - Leopold or Topre kits For Alp...

Very nice collection, derzemel! Those Dolches look awesome.

True. But the wiki has no idea why you want to know the size of that spacebar. GH might be a bit more like your example — someone commending Razor and MX clones on DT would soon get verbally lynched! — but here you'd see a conversation develop around aftermarket caps or the benefits of thumb keys i...

... different strokes for different folks :lol: . The wiki may be too "dry" and factual, often offering more precise or specific info, but it lacks all that unnecessary but socially entertaining and puzzling convos. DT wiki may say something like: wiki: the size of the Filco Minila spacebar is 3u. T...

anybody has any (brand) recommendations for a watch winder? ... maybe for 3 units (no storage/display space necessary). I had a rather old, no-brand single unit winder, but it unceremoniously died a few weeks ago ... so looking for a new one.

^ I'd rather go with the 5-pin DIN as a sign of a keyboard belonging to the "vintage" class. PS/2 keyboards are still sold (and I guess made) ... Amazon is full of them even for the Prime sales. I guess some or many gamers would use them (judging by many brand new gaming rigs come with PS/2 ports in...

IMO the KBT Race, Razers and so on still count as "contemporary" (as in modern ) keyboards. The fact that they are no longer produced doesn't mean they are vintage material -- I don't think an specific category is needed for recent keyboards that just happen to have reached EOL, we already have the...

Obsolescent? A single word version of Recently Discontinued would be nice, but I can't think of one. And obsolescent isn't any good because it implies old boards are obsolete, so therefore worthless junk, just like most people so often think when trashing the good stuff. Yes, it'd be nice to find a...

IMO, we need a category for recently discontinued keyboards -- they are not manufactured any longer; they are not readily available in retail stores; they can be still found in online stores or second hand ... but they are not "Category:Vintage keyboards" and they really don't belong to "Category:Co...

I had same problem with Rapid-I LEDs (http://deskthority.net/review-f45/cooler-master-rapid-si-pre-release-review-t10156.html). My solution was to turn off the lights and replace the keycaps with better PBT keycaps. Not really a solution, but it beats dealing with the support. It seems, CM should ju...

^ this. ... and I have a particularly bad luck with their spacebars -- already warped in a sealed box. Replaced 2 on day 1. One works OK, the second one has a bad switch underneath that warped spacebar. There are cheapos out there with some really lousy quality control and then there is Keycool with...

... I had no idea the black blanks no longer were in stock. I got my Spacesaver back in 2009 and ordered a set of black blanks for $20. I found out last week, when browsing their site, that they altered the bottom row of their keyboards, so now any full set of caps I order won't fit mine. I really ...

^ I'm afraid you may be right. Intuitively, I've been stocking up on a few complete keycap sets since early June ... just in case ...

whist bad its nothing a bit of http://www.3mdirect.co.uk/scotch-brite-heavy-duty-flat-scourer-3-pads.html would not fix yes, it could be smoothened, but 25-year old IBMs were perfectly polished; haven't seen old Lexmarks with this issue either. Maybe, there was a reason why they were using metal to...

That sounds like Unicomp is having quality issues in production. Who knows how old their tooling is and in what condition. I never understood their product range either. Since their keyboards are not distributed in the EU officially they don't show up that often. Personally I've never seen one myse...

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I've seen these before. @rzwv has a Macway branded keyboard with them: http://kbd.rzw.jp/alps/macway_tp-997kb-j/ He has an impressive collection of keyboards and maintains a page with images of the various switches he's amassed: http://kbd.rzw.jp/chata/slider_in_page/ That's the one!!! -- http://kb...

here it is ... more KB pics: [wiki]Dauphin DCK-84[/wiki]

^ Thanks ... I'd think so too, but the cloners rarely (if ever) put Alps logo. Will go with an unknown "Alps black" for now