Great/Interesting Finds

[xxhellfirexx]

FLS is overrated as fuck, almost all the boards have awful protocols that and terrible layouts so you have to map the matrix and use QMK, and on top of that the switches aren't even that good and have a weird force curve and weighting.

Chyros praised them, hence the stupid prices lmao. I would pick space invaders or linear Alps any fucking day.

This board will work out of the box and has a usable layout although this one is overpriced by about $100.
The switches have light actuation with a stiffer bottoming out force similar to NEC blue ovals making great for key spamming. It's okay for typing on if a bit on the light side. It's quite smooth, but the 1.25 unit keys have a bit of binding without additional lube.

It is purely based on preferences. I like the sound of space invaders, but the switches are a bit on the stiff side (typing on one right now), making it not so suitable for typing long paragraphs.

[Findecanor]

FLS is overrated as fuck, [...] the switches aren't even that good and have a weird force curve and weighting.

Mind you, there were three generations of them. The Wiki lists all three as "very smooth" which is not true.

[kelvinhall05]

FLS is overrated as fuck, [...] the switches aren't even that good and have a weird force curve and weighting.

Mind you, there were three generations of them. The Wiki lists all three as "very smooth" which is not true.

Yeah they aren't any smoother than any other decent linear, and they are as sensitive to dust as Alps but way harder to clean. I was unable to remove the sliders from the barrels on my 3rd gen board so even after too much time in an ultrasonic it felt like an mx red.

[vdublove37]

I purchased an FLS 2nd gen. board recently, and can see where the smoothness used to be, but they were much more used than I thought based on the eBay pictures. Some scratchiness present for sure on the alpha keys, but the lesser used ones were pretty smooth.

[Noobmaen]

Not all FLS "gen 3" are equal either. They come in varying degrees of tactility/clickyness and also different weightings.

The ones in my Omron F300k for example feel horrible to me, the force curve is similar to Cherry MY and the sound and bottom out feeling is similarly bad.
Wheras ones in my HP 46020A have a less spongy feel while still being very light and weakly tactile, but audibly clickier.
The variant used in my Fujitsu n860 2500 is a bit heavier and more tactile.

Out of all of them the omron is also the roughest feeling, especially on off center key press, even though it was NOS. It is also the newest and most cheaply made board of the three, in fact appears to be very similar to the tandy 3000 and FKB 4700 in case styling and construction.

[John Doe]

Wheras ones in my HP 46020A have a less spongy feel while still being very light and weakly tactile, but audibly clickier.

I have a hp 46010a with fls switches, but never came across 46020a, mind to share a photo of the kbd showing this?

[Lekrafter]

Interesting

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224171925218

[Riptide666]

Interesting

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224171925218

[inmbolmie]

Mmmm, that reminds me of something...

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[Riptide666]

Indeed!

Mmmm, that reminds me of something...


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[John Doe]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333851287571/

MicroSwitch SD board with 4-terminal pins sensors, curious about its convertibility to USB interface.

[Slom]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333851287571/

MicroSwitch SD board with 4-terminal pins sensors, curious about its convertibility to USB interface.

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[m_raggie]

Russian M122
https://www.avito.ru/sverdlovskaya_obla ... 0#extended

Russian AEKII
https://www.avito.ru/moskovskaya_oblast ... ion=621540

[mindgame]

Cyrillic aek reserved.
M122 has silkscreen third party legends, worn off very fast, don't buy it.

[hellothere]

Cyrillic aek reserved.

So far, $67. That's a good price.

[xxhellfirexx]

Erase-eaze keyboard

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114599578178

[hellothere]

Erase-eaze keyboard

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114599578178

Had to double-check to make sure it wasn't the same one I listed a few week back. Nope. Nice find, xxhellfirexx.

[TNT]

Interesting

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224171925218

Why are you posting porn on a non NSFW forum?

[digital_matthew]

Looks like fun:

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1988-P ... SwMuNf~IQn

[Jan Pospisil]

Looks like fun:
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1988-P ... SwMuNf~IQn

I have the keyboard. The case is pretty bad - light, creaky and flexes a lot (had to put in reinforcing rubber columns), but the caps are oddly non-yellowed doubleshots (compared to the case) and the switches white pine Alps.

edit: OK, not the exact same keyboard. But also PCIII, just with a different layout. (fewer keys, bigass enter etc.)

[Riptide666]

Lmao

Interesting

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224171925218

Why are you posting porn on a NSFW forum?

[Johnbo]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/324449990660

Did this guy just dip the sliders of some Matias Clicks into blue paint and call them "Canada Blue" switches?

[Jan Pospisil]

That's amazing. I'll buy the whole stock.

[wadeak78]

That description has left me speechless

[John Doe]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203246562283/?autorefresh=true

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[arkanoid]

Blue alps, looks clean. 220 BIN
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Samsun ... 5012394740

[hellothere]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/324449990660

Did this guy just dip the sliders of some Matias Clicks into blue paint and call them "Canada Blue" switches?

I've bought stuff from this guy. He's a professor out of New Mexico. He sells uranium and geiger counters, too. He'd probably be an interesting person to sit down and talk with.

He may still have lots of 10 Alps switches for around $10 + shipping, and you only pay that one shipping charge for however many switches you get. That's good. What's bad is that he ships whatever switches of about the same color that's lying around. I think my last order for cream damped had 6 cream damped, a couple pine white, and a couple bamboo white. The order I had before that was also for cream damped and I had about the same spread of switches. When I told him about it through ebay, he responded by saying (direct quote; I have it in my ebay mail): "In the future, I suggest that you buy the ALPS keyswitches from other sellers, not from me. At age <deleted>, any sensitivity to color is likely for me to get worse, not better."

Anyhow, he's also selling "Canada Red Clone" switches. That'd be your Matias Quiet Linear.

EDIT: I checked that "Canada Blue" picture on my big monitor. The switches say "Matias" right on the front of them.

[hellothere]

Blue alps, looks clean. 220 BIN
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Samsun ... 5012394740

Yoink!

A little too bad that it's a Chicony 'board, but I've got a couple cases I can do some switching on.

[kbdfr]

[…] he responded by saying (direct quote; I have it in my ebay mail): "In the future, I suggest that you buy the ALPS keyswitches from other sellers, not from me. At age <deleted>, any sensitivity to color is likely for me to get worse, not better." […]

Now at least it’s a straightforward and fairly motivated answer

[cakeanalytics]

Model F AT, lot of 4
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184621455117