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Offline indilinx

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Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 01:32:02 »
found this while cleaning out a friends house. no brand stickers, just a manufacturing sticker. "Monterey International Corp."
forgot the model number, just remember not being able to find any information on it





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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 08:18:43 »
If you're in Europe, sell it to me!   :cool:

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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 08:19:23 »
If you're in the US sell it to me! :cool:
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 08:26:16 »
no brand stickers, just a manufacturing sticker. "Monterey International Corp."

Please post the details, a photo of any label would be great.

Blue Monterey sliders are totally awesome switches that are very hard to find in a decent board.
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 08:28:01 »
no brand stickers, just a manufacturing sticker. "Monterey International Corp."

Please post the details, a photo of any label would be great.

Blue Monterey sliders are totally awesome switches that are very hard to find in a decent board.


Those don't look like monterey's to me. I mean, I know the thing is made by Monterey, but those have the shape of Alps sliders. Though I don't see any labeling on the switches. Confusing board that I want ;)
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 08:40:56 »
no brand stickers, just a manufacturing sticker. "Monterey International Corp."

Please post the details, a photo of any label would be great.

Blue Monterey sliders are totally awesome switches that are very hard to find in a decent board.


Those don't look like monterey's to me. I mean, I know the thing is made by Monterey, but those have the shape of Alps sliders. Though I don't see any labeling on the switches. Confusing board that I want ;)

Yeah, those look like (complicated) blue clicky alps to me (the older, generally complicated, alps switches tend to be lacking the alps logo).

At least, they look identical to the switches on a broken northgate 102 that I need to tear down one of these days.
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 09:05:34 »
I agree. Those don't look like any Monterey Blues I own or have seen. The color isn't that saturated. They look like Blue Alps.
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 09:30:34 »
If you are in hell sell it to me!
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 09:37:51 »
I agree. Those don't look like any Monterey Blues I own or have seen. The color isn't that saturated. They look like Blue Alps.

Aside from the color issues, Monterey Blues don't have the same shape of sliders:  http://webwit.nl/input/misc/minitouch_monterey/6.jpg

The "tabs" on the blue sliders in OPs pictures are different.
 

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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #10 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 09:51:24 »
I am curious about the build quality of the keyboard itself - chassis, case, etc.

Doubleshot caps indicate that somebody at the factory, or somewhere, really cared about quality.
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 09:52:50 »
To me, the switch looks like this:

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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 09:56:22 »
Post an image of the sticker on the back, please.
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #13 on: Mon, 05 August 2013, 09:56:42 »
To me, the switch looks like this:

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That's pretty much my exact thought as well. It seems like my good old friend Complicated Blue Alps which I've been searching for for a while now. ME WANNA BUY
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #14 on: Wed, 07 August 2013, 01:35:12 »
i took a picture of the back sticker.
Model number being K101, try googling it LOL, nothing comes up


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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #15 on: Wed, 07 August 2013, 08:31:35 »
It is a Monterey K101, with blue Alps switches.
What else do you need to know?

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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #16 on: Wed, 07 August 2013, 08:46:44 »
SELL IT TO MEEEEE :-*
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #17 on: Wed, 07 August 2013, 16:51:28 »
It is a Monterey K101, with blue Alps switches.
What else do you need to know?

like i said, no information comes up from searches. I'm looking for additional information like, origin, history, approx worth ?


SELL IT TO MEEEEE :-*

I would, but I'm located in Canada so shipping might be an issue. Also i have no idea how much its worth.
gona have to get a shipping estimate first
the condition is pretty good though


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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #18 on: Thu, 08 August 2013, 16:10:41 »
That is one of the most awesome keyboards ever made. I've got one — I've just realised that it's the OEM source product of my Tulip ATK 030244. (Including those funky arrow keys!)

Yes those are genuine complicated blue Alps switches, and the keyboard is very resonant, giving it a really rich, lush sound.

FCC registration date is 04/10/1987, so that will give you some idea of its age.

The huge down side is the vintage layout. I started moving the switch uppers (upper shell, return spring, slider, click leaf) into my Dell AT101W — the lovely resonance is gone, and the switches don't feel as light, so I may need to swap out the actuator leaves as well, as they may have less "give" in the later generation design used in the Dell. Ideally the switches should be transplanted properly, and I feel sad at losing the integrity of my beloved Tulip keyboard. (That was my first clicky keyboard.)
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #19 on: Fri, 09 August 2013, 20:13:02 »
I WONDER WHAT THAT BLANK KEY BETWEEN THE LEFT CONTROL AND ALT KEYS DOES? HAVEN'T SEEN ONE OF THOSE ON A KEYBOARD BEFORE.
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Re: Help Me Identify This Keyboard
« Reply #20 on: Fri, 09 August 2013, 20:18:54 »
Since you can't even find the caps lock key on your own keyboard …

(In all seriousness, those blank keys are placeholders for the one extra key in European keyboards. That blank key is \ on mine, and the key between right alt and right control is the displaced # — Tulip ATK 030244 rebadged K101)
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