Great/Interesting Finds

[tinnie]

and the case is cracked...

[BlueBär]

FK2002: http://www.ebay.de/itm/321425971379

[BlueBär]

Ortek MCK101FX: http://www.ebay.de/itm/111376254274
Only info I could find on it: http://kbtalking.cool3c.com/article/6026
White clone Alps it seems with some doubleshots.

Key Tronic Model M clone: http://www.ebay.de/itm/251554496797
At least that's what it looks like to me. Probably nothing great, but I thought I'd mention it since the Wiki has only Model F clones.

Looks like Ansi doubleshots or dyesubs to me: http://www.ebay.de/itm/111378224507

[scottc]

Looks like Ansi doubleshots or dyesubs to me: http://www.ebay.de/itm/111378224507

Nice matrix layout board. Almost symmetric stagger too. Not bad.

[mbodrov]

Looks like Ansi doubleshots or dyesubs to me: http://www.ebay.de/itm/111378224507

10 EUR says pad printed.

[Candyflip]

I am pretty sure hey aren't dyesubs nor doubleshots, can't quite tell from those pics but they sure look like pad printed

[BlueBär]

It was supposed to be a joke ;-;

[Muirium]

Keyboards are far too serious a subject for any of that!

[Candyflip]

no fun allowed!

I didn't read your comment just what mbodrov quoted and jumped to conclusions ;D

[IvanIvanovich]

That 'kinder' keyboard should have Alps alike white switches though so possibly not a bad choice if that layout is for you. The keycap is pad print pretty sure on newer usb model, though I think the older model with din5 did have Tai Hao doubleshot.

[Muirium]

I'd love to see someone using that as their main keyboard! Especially with those original caps…

[BlueBär]

I'd love to see someone using that as their main keyboard! Especially with those original caps…

I totally should do that for a week or so. And take it with me to uni

[collector of junk]

Looks like Ansi doubleshots or dyesubs to me: http://www.ebay.de/itm/111378224507


are you lot serious !!!!!white alps !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or is this more piss taking !!

[BlueBär]

Guess I'll have to quote myself:

It was supposed to be a joke ;-;

[Muirium]

Ah, but was Ivan?

[facetsesame]

That "kinder" board looks fairly tame compared to the UK versions I used to filter out of eBay searches:
WARNING: you probably don't want to see them.

Spoiler:

I repeat, you probably don't want to see these. View at your own risk. You have been warned!
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Early-Learning-C ... J/$_57.JPG
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/KIDS-USB-COLOUR- ... s/$_12.JPG

With nicer caps they could almost be interesting 'boards (that cursor arrangement is reminiscent of the ancients), but if they really are Alps, therein is a further issue...

[Muirium]

I had a feeling they'd use that font…

[BlueBär]

Fuck yeah Comic Sans :O

[Muirium]

Forcibly exposing kids to Comic Sans is just as evil as exposing them to BASIC. The horror, the horror…

[BlueBär]

[Muirium]

Comic Pap.png (28.16 KiB) Viewed 5273 times

[facetsesame]

One justification I heard for using C. Sans in a particular school was that few other handwriting-esque fonts that ship with Windows have a single loop lower case a. Even Papyrus can't match that.

[Muirium]

I must admit that I like "single deck" a's. Fortunately, they're far from limited to idiotic fake handwiting fonts. One of the 20th century's classics: Futura has them.



And I quite like Questrial too. When I'm not banging on about Helvetica, I'm also a geometric modernist…

[Hypersphere]

Comic Pap.png

Even worse: the fonts used for movie titles in the 1950s so that you could tell it was a romantic comedy before having to suffer through the movie. Zany! Madcap!

[IvanIvanovich]

I was actually being serious about that board having Alps. Well at least the older ones did have them as I have seen used ones on ebay before that had missing keycap.

[scottc]

That "kinder" board looks fairly tame compared to the UK versions I used to filter out of eBay searches:
WARNING: you probably don't want to see them.

Spoiler:

I repeat, you probably don't want to see these. View at your own risk. You have been warned!
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Early-Learning-C ... J/$_57.JPG
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/KIDS-USB-COLOUR- ... s/$_12.JPG

With nicer caps they could almost be interesting 'boards (that cursor arrangement is reminiscent of the ancients), but if they really are Alps, therein is a further issue...

I have the UK version... certainly not ALPS

[facetsesame]

That "kinder" board looks fairly tame compared to the UK versions I used to filter out of eBay searches:
WARNING: you probably don't want to see them.

Spoiler:

I repeat, you probably don't want to see these. View at your own risk. You have been warned!
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Early-Learning-C ... J/$_57.JPG
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/KIDS-USB-COLOUR- ... s/$_12.JPG

With nicer caps they could almost be interesting 'boards (that cursor arrangement is reminiscent of the ancients), but if they really are Alps, therein is a further issue...

I have the UK version... certainly not ALPS

Somehow I'm curious, do they just have domes on a membrane?

[Hak Foo]

Looks like Ansi doubleshots or dyesubs to me: http://www.ebay.de/itm/111378224507


are you lot serious !!!!!white alps !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or is this more piss taking !!

Honestly, the weird mustard-yellow of the yellow keys makes me immediately think of the Tai Hao doubleshots we've all seen recently.

[bazh]

people love the Handerbeit keyboard but laugh at a kid keyboard :/

[scottc]

Somehow I'm curious, do they just have domes on a membrane?

I'm not actually sure. I never checked. They feel incredibly mushy, though.