I pulled all keycaps off both keyboards today for cleaning, and discovered that one of the space bars is damaged - one of the pins that holds the stabiliser bar is broken, so I need a new space bar. The other one seems fine. The space bar is the "large" one from Unicomp, right?
Second question is colour. They list black, pearl and white. The space bars I have are not as white as a piece of paper, but almost the same as the HHKB keys. Would that be Unicomp's white or pearl?
Mainly for my own records, my Ms are missing the following keys:
1993: Esc, F1, 1, Backspace, Tab, Caps Lock, left Shift, Z, X, left Ctrl, left Alt.
1995: Caps Lock, left Shift, left Ctrl, space bar.
Third question is also colours: I'd get the RGB sets, so that takes care of Shift/Ctrl/Alt. What colour are the other modifiers on these? Unicomp list pebble and gray for the colours, I'm guessing mine would be gray? And including a bunch of single keys, Unicomp lists black, pebble (kinda light brown), gray and pearl. Definitely not black or pebble or gray, so I guess the alpha keys are pearl?
Then I noticed the Complete Printed Buckling Spring Button Set for $25 - would that be better? That seems cheap for a complete set (minus space bar) of keycaps. Any comments?
http://pckeyboard.com/page/Buttons/PSETSlowly learning about these Model Ms. Pics of mine are here:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=33130.msg953791#msg953791Thanks for any suggestions