Focus FK-8000 KeyCal

Chyros · 02 May 2015, 19:58

Focus FK-8000 KeyCal

Time for another review! This time it's my FK-8000, one of Focus' models that came with a built-in calculator. It runs semi-independently off a battery and uses the numpad as well as several extra keys. It's very useful, although mine doesn't work well when there's a lot of characters on the screen.

These cal-boards are extremely unreliable, but not super uncommon. Mine wasn't in as good a condition as I thought it would be, but the seller was very reasonable, so we worked out a deal. After an immense amount of cleaning and gluing some of the keys back together, it types pretty well

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The type OA2 clones in the keyboard aren't as nice as genuine, complicated Alps, but they're pretty decent, still much better than blue Cherries IMO. They sound a bit more high-pitched and hollow than genuine Alps, but it's still a quite pleasant sound.

Overall a nice keyboard if you can find one that works! Hope you enjoy the video

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seebart · 02 May 2015, 20:21

Good review Chyros! I own three Focus keyboards, but no FK-8000. Interesting that your's has Alps clones.

Chyros · 02 May 2015, 23:38

Cheers, glad you like it

. Which ones do you own?

Mal-2 · 02 May 2015, 23:54

Chyros wrote: Time for another review! This time it's my FK-8000, one of Focus' models that came with a built-in calculator. It runs semi-independently off a battery and uses the numpad as well as several extra keys. It's very useful, although mine doesn't work well when there's a lot of characters on the screen.

Good God, you should be doing voice-over work.

Chyros · 03 May 2015, 00:14

Mal-2 wrote:
Chyros wrote: Time for another review! This time it's my FK-8000, one of Focus' models that came with a built-in calculator. It runs semi-independently off a battery and uses the numpad as well as several extra keys. It's very useful, although mine doesn't work well when there's a lot of characters on the screen.
Good God, you should be doing voice-over work.

Haha cheers mate, thanks for the compliment xD . I'd love to do voice-over work actually

. Even though my daytime job is something quite radically different xD .

seebart · 03 May 2015, 16:12

Chyros wrote:Cheers, glad you like it . Which ones do you own?

Two FK-2002 and one FK-2000 Plus. One 2002 has blue Alps. The other two white.

Chyros · 04 May 2015, 02:13

seebart wrote:
Chyros wrote:Cheers, glad you like it . Which ones do you own?
Two FK-2002 and one FK-2000 Plus. One 2002 has blue Alps. The other two white.

Cool, very nice! I didn't even know the 2000 could come with real Alps - the wiki only says it has clones

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seebart · 04 May 2015, 10:56

Chyros wrote:
seebart wrote:
Chyros wrote:Cheers, glad you like it . Which ones do you own?
Two FK-2002 and one FK-2000 Plus. One 2002 has blue Alps. The other two white.
Cool, very nice! I didn't even know the 2000 could come with real Alps - the wiki only says it has clones .

good question, it's NIB and I only looked at it a couple of times a last year. I should check.