deskthority

You may or may not have seen these via the great finds thread, so here they are:



Time has not been kind to the keycaps. Lots of cracks on most of them, especially the LED window.





I already have a Cherry (M8) LPFK, so why not an Alps one?



Big and beefy mains power switch, SPST push on/push off. With a very satisfactory type of feeling to it.



Mains power, apply directly to the keyboard. MAINS POWER, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE KEYBOARD!







Unfortunately, I couldn't get access to the internals easily. Screws are some sort of abnormal hex type that I have no key for, despite having pretty much every metric and SAE size.

Obligatory blinkenlights vidjeo:

Very interesting that the LED windows are of a completely different design to the SGI variant of this that comes with SKCL Grey (and rarely Cream). Super cool!

Alps was such a chameleon company when it came to keyboards, goodness. Nice to see more documentation on stuff like this.

Cool stuff, thanks for uploading the video also so we can see the LED's in action.

Neat! Was it for a terminal or something?

This thing is really neat. Thanks for sharing!

Ir0n wrote: Neat! Was it for a terminal or something?

It's used to be used with Auto CAD as a shortcut key panel.

Interesting to note that the label reads "Made for IBM Japan" - it looks like this was probably a Japanese-specific IBM LPFK, and thus made locally, like most of the IBM Japan stuff.

I want dem caps.

Amazing gem.