For the sake of their own mental health
Goodies from China
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Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Oh right, you mean a working keyboard. I was confused, as the buckling spring switches are not discrete.
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Mr.Nobody
- Location: China
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M/F
- Main mouse: Lenovo Big Red Dot
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
These gems are going to leave People Republic of freakin' China for United States of freakin' America today...
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining freakin' sea!
Remember the IBM multistation with blue sublegends and Japanese Kanji and the Focus 747 with blue Alps ? Yes,along with two IBM 468x keyboards, they all belong to an honorable DT member and collector from U.S. now, and with his permission I post them here to say farewell, have a safe transatalatic flight !
Here are the photos from the original seller, for those who didn' t know about the Multistation keyboard.
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining freakin' sea!
Remember the IBM multistation with blue sublegends and Japanese Kanji and the Focus 747 with blue Alps ? Yes,along with two IBM 468x keyboards, they all belong to an honorable DT member and collector from U.S. now, and with his permission I post them here to say farewell, have a safe transatalatic flight !
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Menuhin
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: HHKB PD-KB400BN lubed, has Hasu Bt Controller
- Main mouse: How to make scroll ring of Expert Mouse smoother?
- Favorite switch: Gateron ink lubed
- DT Pro Member: -
Wow, I hope the IBM multistation keyboard is going to a good home and will have a good life serving some real purpose.
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Mr.Nobody
- Location: China
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M/F
- Main mouse: Lenovo Big Red Dot
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
If only It were buckling spring, if only I were not a diehard buckling spring guy, I'd be interested in this Japanese made IBM Multistation,exquisite craftsmanship I have to admit. BTW, thank you for you links providing an opportunity to have a glimpse of what goodies are out there in Japan, although I am not an Alps guy, but still it's always good to have a look at those vintage keyboards anyway.
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Mr.Nobody
- Location: China
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M/F
- Main mouse: Lenovo Big Red Dot
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
These gems are also ready and will be shipped out today for another two honorable DT members and keyboard collectors in Romania and Austria respectively.
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Mr.Nobody
- Location: China
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M/F
- Main mouse: Lenovo Big Red Dot
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
#60 No reference whatsoever, but one thing for sure not rubber dome.No link, not from Taobao.
#61 Again, No reference whatsoever,No link, seller claims it's capacitive, but he is not sure about it eighter.
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subcat
- Location: Australia
- Main keyboard: HHKB Professional
- Main mouse: Zowie EC2-A
- Favorite switch: Topre
- DT Pro Member: -
Although as much as I wish I lived in Austria, I'm in Australia 
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Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
60 is a lot like [wiki]Monterey dome with slider[/wiki] but it's different enough that I'm not certain. Some keyboards are clearly Monterey (it says so on them) and there are others from different brands that may have subcontracted to Monterey or simply developed a switch that is fairly similar. They're not something that people have invested effort into understanding.
61 is curious. It's very old-school — it's almost a Model F XT clone, but they've made the layout more cramped. I guess it could be PBT+dye sub keycaps — maybe that's where the money went instead of on the switches. The apparent cheapness of the switches seems rather at odds with the age of the layout!
61 is curious. It's very old-school — it's almost a Model F XT clone, but they've made the layout more cramped. I guess it could be PBT+dye sub keycaps — maybe that's where the money went instead of on the switches. The apparent cheapness of the switches seems rather at odds with the age of the layout!
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Mr.Nobody
- Location: China
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M/F
- Main mouse: Lenovo Big Red Dot
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
Sorry for the typo~don't worry no typo on the shipping sheet
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Wodan
- ISO Advocate
- Location: ISO-DE
- Main keyboard: Intense Rotation!!!
- Main mouse: Logitech G903
- Favorite switch: ALL OF THEM
- DT Pro Member: -
Oh no that's a really awesome joke ... how do you come up with these gems?!
A kick in the nuts ... OMG I'm cracking up! hahaha you get it? Cracking up like a nut that gets kicked!
You should do stand-up comedy in Kazakhstan, that's how funny you are!
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Ail
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: TADA68
- Main mouse: Zowie FK2
- Favorite switch: Gateron Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
I'm bored at work so I'll post some as well. I have a large collection of links I am going to dump, maybe this weekend if I get to it. I want to format it properly and update price/availability.
Pretty neat, says it was for speech synthesis. Has some nice doubleshot keycaps you don't see very often. The price is decent.
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Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
#60 definitely superficially resembles Monterey dome with slider. The same tall slider wells, the same slider (apparently), etc. But the play between the slider well and the slider seems even bigger than it is with the normal ones, and the slider is a colour I haven't seen before. If it's advertised as capacitive, maybe it's an older foam-and-foil version of the switch, much like we've seen with BTC.
#61 very much appears to be Key Tronic mount, but not of a slider I've seen before (there were several KT dome with slider designs, not all of which were made by KT). Again, if it's listed as capacitive, it might well be a type of foam and foil we haven't seen before. That said, the amount of dome with slider designs is almost endless.
#61 very much appears to be Key Tronic mount, but not of a slider I've seen before (there were several KT dome with slider designs, not all of which were made by KT). Again, if it's listed as capacitive, it might well be a type of foam and foil we haven't seen before. That said, the amount of dome with slider designs is almost endless.
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Mr.Nobody
- Location: China
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M/F
- Main mouse: Lenovo Big Red Dot
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
That F AT is out of stock, If my memory is right, many links are dad links in fact,really maddening, in fact Taobao prohibits listing items without actually having stocks, but it's a loose rule.