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Talk about a custom keyboard!
Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 00:44
by elecplus
Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 01:02
by webwit
Datamancer, very sad story. Famous steampunk keyboard modder. Died last year.
Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 01:07
by Daniel Beardsmore
Interesting, an Alps Datamancer — I am guessing that this used to be an AT101W.
Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 01:12
by elecplus
The board I have a dozen complete ones right now? Mine are Dell labeled.
Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 13:24
by Daniel Beardsmore
Yes, those are the ones. I still need a few more vintage Tai-Hao keycaps for mine to replace as many as I can of the lousy Silitek keycaps. I also need to finish off converting the black Alps switches to pseudo-blue Alps using parts from my donor Monterey K102, although admittedly the black Alps switches were better suited to office use. What I should really have done is left the poor old blue Alps keyboard alone, and replaced the black Alps in the AT102W with Matias switches, assuming of course I could solder.
Re: Talk about a custom keyboard!
Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 15:24
by pasph
Now they use cherry and sell also keycaps alone
http://www.datamancer.com/cart/datamanc ... p-276.html
And can do almost every layout your (big) money can buy
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