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OleVoip wrote:

Mr.Nobody wrote: I don't see others overreact so much, there is a simple solution for some overly-sensitive folks, just don't click into my thread.

*plonk*

For the sake of their own mental health

Admittedly the plate spring switch does look similar, I would settle for that. It feels pretty good. Odd sounding though.

Oh right, you mean a working keyboard. I was confused, as the buckling spring switches are not discrete.

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.

For a successful Sino-US collaboration of collecting vintage boards from China, let's shake hands,yeah,hold my delicate Asian hand and shake it.

Wow, I hope the IBM multistation keyboard is going to a good home and will have a good life serving some real purpose.

Congrats to whoever got those IBM 4683s, real beauties. I'd love to get one myself eventually..

Menuhin wrote: Wow, I hope the IBM multistation keyboard is going to a good home and will have a good life serving some real purpose.

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.

emdude wrote: Congrats to whoever got those IBM 4683s, real beauties. I'd love to get one myself eventually..

Are these 468Xs workable on PC?

On the other hand, my very first EwasteBay auction ended up not bad as well, I hope it's one of the DT members who gets the Blue Alps.

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.

#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.

Mr.Nobody wrote:

emdude wrote: Congrats to whoever got those IBM 4683s, real beauties. I'd love to get one myself eventually..

Are these 468Xs workable on PC?

I'm not sure, they were POS keyboards. Perhaps with some work, they might be.

Mr.Nobody wrote: 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.

Spoiler:

Keycaps from Focus 747 heading for Romania



Grey Alps with LED lights heading for Austria

Exciting! Although as much as I wish I lived in Austria, I'm in Australia

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!

I've seen #61 on Taobao and considered picking one up. Both times they were labeled as capacitive.

subcat wrote:

Mr.Nobody wrote: 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.

Spoiler:

Keycaps from Focus 747 heading for Romania



Grey Alps with LED lights heading for Austria

Exciting! Although as much as I wish I lived in Austria, I'm in Australia

Sorry for the typo~don't worry no typo on the shipping sheet

@DanielBeardsmore and Ail

So let's wait for Chyros' opinion.The layout of #61 is a kick in the nuts,I hope this joke won't hurt anybody's feeling.

Mr.Nobody wrote: So let's wait for Chyros' opinion.The layout of #61 is a kick in the nuts,I hope this joke won't hurt anybody's feeling.

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!

Guys, for the love of all keyboards, switches and whatnot that gathers us here, relax already

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.

OG Blue on Grey Cherry Doubleshots:

#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.

G80-1191HBU Tandem with Doubleshots:
Probably my second favorite case in this style after the Peacock.

Model F - AT:
This is the average price for these on Taobao, several sellers have them in stock. Varying amounts.

AT&T Buckling Spring with two-part caps:

AT&T g80-3309 with MX Blues and Doubleshots:

g80-3000 with MX Clears, Lasered Caps:

Special Edition Angry Bears! (NMB Brown Hi-Teks):
The translation of Hi-Tek switches to angry bears gets me every time.

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.