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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #50 on: Thu, 04 July 2013, 14:21:50 »
When Matias has them in stock, you can buy them here. It's $50 for 200 and then $10 shipping to the States. Not sure about shipping elsewhere.

And just recently, I found out that MechanicalKeyboards.com is selling them. The link for the Matias switches at MK.com is here.

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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #51 on: Thu, 04 July 2013, 14:42:11 »
When Matias has them in stock, you can buy them here. It's $50 for 200 and then $10 shipping to the States. Not sure about shipping elsewhere.

And just recently, I found out that MechanicalKeyboards.com is selling them. The link for the Matias switches at MK.com is here.

Thanks for the links. And where you can buy caps Alps?

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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #52 on: Thu, 04 July 2013, 14:48:12 »
Um...that's an issue I'm currently trying to figure out. Since I like the US ANSI layout, I have a couple Dell AT101W keyboards that I'm using for different projects. I can get them for fairly cheap, around $30 or so. I'm not quite sure what layout you'd like to hunt down but you can try that or maybe Focus FK-2001's.

The Kingsaver, a Korean custom Alps board, uses stabilizers and caps from a Wang 724 Alps board. Pictures can be found here.

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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #53 on: Thu, 04 July 2013, 15:12:00 »
The Matias switches are based on Alps switches (Grey Tactile and Dampened Cream Alps) which is why I suggested them. If you do end up trying them, please let us know what you think. I love your boards and I'd love to know your thoughts on the switches :D

Where to buy them?

Check 7bit's GB at Deskthority.

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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #54 on: Thu, 04 July 2013, 15:39:59 »
Not crazy about this one, but that's me.
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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #55 on: Thu, 04 July 2013, 15:53:24 »
Where's the Enter key and how do you access it?

You can do instead of the right shift.

Enter - Fn+h
Backspace - Fn+n
Delete - Fn+m
Insert - Fn+,
Arrows - Fn+ijkl
Home - Fn+u
End - Fn+o
PgUp - Fn+p
PgDn - Fn+;


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CatBoard4 prototype
« Reply #56 on: Thu, 07 November 2013, 08:42:32 »
Between the fingers length 19 mm, between the buttons on one finger of 16 mm.



Comparison with CatBoard2:

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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #57 on: Thu, 07 November 2013, 14:33:28 »
Welcome back ibnteo! Ohh, I like that track ball man!

Is LAT Latvian?

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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #58 on: Thu, 07 November 2013, 14:57:25 »
Welcome back ibnteo! Ohh, I like that track ball man!

Is LAT Latvian?

Latin, most likely. As opposed to Russian Cyrillic. :)
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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #59 on: Thu, 07 November 2013, 14:59:14 »
Ah ok, His old revision had Eng so I thought it was like Rus, Eng, Lat, etc. But that makes total sense ^__^.

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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #60 on: Thu, 07 November 2013, 18:02:01 »
Welcome back ibnteo! Ohh, I like that track ball man!

Is LAT Latvian?

A tribute to tradition, was the name of the switches on the old computer languages ​​БК-0010 (BK-0010), РУС (RUS - Russian) and ЛАТ (LAT - Latin).

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Re: CatBoard
« Reply #61 on: Thu, 07 November 2013, 18:02:37 »
That's so cool. Thanks for the info :D