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The Wayback Machine has archived the Deskthority wiki several times over the years, though hopefully it gets fixed up soon.

Here is the Courier 1700 page, though the pics there don't look to be the same caps:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240204225 ... urier_1700

Comptec is a predecessor to Signature Plastics, the last major keycap manufacturer in North America. These look like SA caps with a cruciform mount that's probably too tight to fit on Cherry MX switches, but a couple of ITT's in-house designs for switches used something similar. Having cap legends ...

I did the counter functionality in my own firmware almost two years ago. It's a keystroke counter, but realistically, I've never broken one million keystrokes before either the host machine got powered-off or the OLED decided to lock itself up.


I think the Freewriter is supposed to be a "word ...

This is the best picture I've seen of it so far. It looks like somebody made a toddler's busy-board from an old cafeteria tray. Then there's the so-called value add. Grab any QMK board with a knob and OLED and a dozen relegendable caps, then dare a coder on a Discord server that they couldn't ...

Hi everybody. I recently won an auction for four vintage boards. One is a weird (likely) Clare Foam and Foil that's in terrible shape, but the rest are white Alps or clones. For those, I was hoping to get a little info and help.

First is a Tai Hao TH-5539-3 with clones. This one is in immaculate ...

That is *deeply* weird, particularly the sculpting of the top and bottom row keycaps.

It definitely looks like some sort of terminal. I'm surprised they would use foam-and-foil switches, though. My experience with those has been very bad; it's odd they would be used in a bespoke and expensive ...

Hey everybody. I recently won an ebay auction for 4 vintage keyboardss. One of them is a darn-near NOS Tai Hao TH-5539-3. Two are Focus models with cut cords and a few missing caps, though the calculator still works on the FK-9000. The last one is an oddity, though sadly it's probably too far gone ...

The space bar has three switches under it. I was expecting a stabilizer bar but it's just three switches, one in the middle and one at either end.


I'm by no means as expert as many on the forum, but I've never seen that before. Stabilizers are way cheaper than switches, and electrical ...

As they say on the other thread, it looks like a rebranded Wyse ASCII board. The physical layout is very usable, and the converter would let you change the keymap.

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52597.0

Somebody did an internal re-wire on this reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r ...

I don't think unicomp makes a modern one, but you could always hunt for an "Unsaver," which is the 122-key without a numpad.

https://sharktastica.co.uk/wiki?id=modelf#104

A "Soarer's" converter or one of its descendants can help with rollover issues somewhat, and can easily convert a key (I use ...

Hi Everybody! I mostly use my own homemade Cherry MX "junkboards," but today I did get this Litton Data Systems 75% from 1997ish, consisting of an Alphameric sealed electrocapacitive(?) dome keyboard module in a powder-coated sheet-steel case. Bottom out is pretty mushy, but otherwise not bad ...

Tecsee medium, GTMX, or outemu half height are all roughly the same thing, with normal MX bottom halves. You can also shave a few mm off by using lower profile keycaps than the OEM on that macropad.

Amazon has the keychron hot swap C3 Pro for just a touch over that new, and solidly in the range if you’re willing to take your chances with open box.