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spoon wrote: 22 Feb 2024, 19:34 This actually helps focus my research a bit. Thank you!

hope you find what you're looking for!

They look like typewriter caps i think - loads of typewriters used that mount. someone else might be able to tell you what typewriter they're from, though

https://mechboards.co.uk/products/hyper-7-v4

It's a GB (and pretty pricey) but this is an option if it's huge you want

Hiya!

I'm looking for SKCC or other less common skcl/m switch boards (though my budget isn't immense, so maybe not the last one )

Preferably UK based for shipping ease if that's alright, though message me anyway if you're not and we can chat about it!

Most "modern" keyboards I come across are built kinda like crap.


If you get into customs you can get milled aluminium, or if you're fancy enough higher grade metals yet. I'd say they're better build condition than F's in some ways, definitely M's - but I'm not sure if that's what you're looking ...

Muirium wrote: 22 Aug 2023, 15:36 The way I do it is to do exactly what you've just done there, but instead of hitting Submit: copy it and paste it into a DM. The same quote format and their links works in DMs.

Ohh that makes sense, fhankst wtf, I meant thanks

Hey, I'm so sorry, i know it's a long shot - do you still have this keyboard? I've bought a NOS keyboard minus case that has similar codes to yours, but the layout is markedly different. I can't find anything about it though, and I'm trying to figure out if it has SKCL or SKCC, if you found ...

Ah, must not be the same one. The one I found had skcl greens and was on eBay.

Nice get!


https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FL4AAOSwSKBeTIVN/s-l1600.jpg

I picked up the C.Itoh/CIE Terminals with greens on ebay :D. The caps are in outstanding condition. They are doubleshot, medium thickness ...

DocFreud wrote: 15 Aug 2023, 16:12 I've been away for a while. Keyboard has been sold separately, terminal has been donated to local museum. Thank you.

That's probably a good shout - had I the budget or the location for it, I would've loved to have bought it, but it'll be a great education piece

Muirium wrote: 14 Aug 2023, 17:59

They're pricey, mind. So that's why I don't have one. Same story as my lack of IBM industrials.

oh absolutely, i could never afford one myself! The greatest expense of my vint career will be my zenith z-150 for £150 that I'm organising, as you can tell I'm not high budget

Hey, no picking on the Alps virgin! :lol:

I'd love to get my fingers on some browns. Something I'd never dream to say about Cherry!

My low-res / lazy understanding is that SKCM browns are the early tactile equivalent to SKCM blues, which are definitively the summit clicky Alps. I've got blues ...

DrAlis wrote: 13 Aug 2023, 23:56 Indeed! Please offer less and do not be offended. Best offers considered after a week or so. New to the blue alps game.

Haha it's alright, I haven't the budget - good luck with selling though!

Rather a lot for a chicony, no?

I shall speculate otherwise.

“Locking caps lock” is a feature in QMK etc. as a (hacky) way to support mapping other (better) mods to an unmodified latching Caps Lock. There is no inherent magic to latching switches: they’re switches, which latch. Interpreting them, controller side, is where the ...

Does anyone know if swapping the locking switch on the capslock switch for a non-locking switch, would let that key behave like a normal key?

Reason being, I really like to map capslock to control.


I'm just speculating, but i don't think so.
Reason being, when programming a converter you have ...

Palatino wrote: 10 Aug 2023, 16:41 Added twenty more items; updated album.

Ayy

I'm not here to buy, just wanted to say glws! I've witnessed this tragedy unfold, and I would definitely buy if I was in the market for topre

Next couple of days should be good! I’m just photographing the second batch. Also trying to keep on top of messages. It’d be so much easier if the DT system organised it by conversations instead of many separate messages per person.


That's good to hear! I know what you mean, the system's so ...

Hiya, do you know when you'll have time to organize/ship orders? There's no hurry, I'm just curious

I've had a series of white Alps boards, and one Monterey blue (SMK clicky) board, and what I will say is that they're quite different genres of switch. The SMK are light as a feather and actuate with hardly any force - this is really nice sometimes, and their tactility is surprisingly sharp once you ...

Nope, never won a Wingnut. Kind of like Leo DiCaprio and an Oscar - I'll never get one!

https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=7012

Go on, flame me for posting. palatino has been a forum friend for many years now, and I wish him the best with his sales. In fact I had to stop myself from ...

Looks like it's the summer of selling keyboards. If you're in the US and want some deals, check out my sales. But palatino is the better option in the UK!


Poor palatino, advertising in his thread


XMIT's a DT legend (I’m sure he won a Wingnut or two in the day, if you've heard of those ...

XMIT wrote: 05 Aug 2023, 13:56 Looks like it's the summer of selling keyboards. If you're in the US and want some deals, check out my sales. But palatino is the better option in the UK!

Poor palatino, advertising in his thread

Hehe sorry for opening a can of blue worms! I hadn’t made any final agreements and was going to come back to you, guidemetothelight, to see your response. Perhaps this one would have been better as an open auction. My fault for trying to multitask with children running and screaming all around ...

Futaba clicky switches are some of my favourite, and one of my favourite keyboards has these, but one key requires a harder press than all the others. Probably wouldn’t be a problem or even noticeable for a heavier-handed typist, but it bugs me. Therefore, I’d like to solder out that switch and ...

Hehe sorry for opening a can of blue worms! I hadn’t made any final agreements and was going to come back to you, guidemetothelight, to see your response. Perhaps this one would have been better as an open auction. My fault for trying to multitask with children running and screaming all around ...

Apologies, I think he's agreed to sell it to me! Granted, for £50, but I think it's because I'm easier to ship to.

a classic move. just bid more money. why didnt I think of that. :D



In fairness, are you not rather stocked in terms of blue Alps?

You tell me. I have a singular Focus 727 ...

Apologies for clogging the thread, but if someone else is sold the blue Alps keeb, god forbid, I'd be interested in buying one of the switches for restoration so I can compare it to my many white Alps switches

I was probably one of the earlier people who wrote palatino and already discussed ...

I bet you’re getting a lot of interest in the blue Alps donor. :mrgreen:

what ? interest in affordable blue alps ? me ? nooooo


I will brawl to the death for their blue Alps keyboard :)


Apologies for clogging the thread, but if someone else is sold the blue Alps keeb, god forbid, I'd ...

Muirium wrote: 03 Aug 2023, 13:56 Blue Alps: worth it.

Exactly, getting my first blue Alps board is totally worth the murder charge