Like Chyros said their is a bunch of really good ones.
I'd argue one of the IBM Model F's is the best ones to look for. It's not super rare or expensive nor very difficult to get working on modern PC's. You just have to get used to funky layouts.
Oh man, there are SO MANY good old keyboards, old keyboards are better than modern ones! :D
I have my eyes currently on a DELL AT101W, which is not very expensive and the switches feel nice heavy and tactile! It has ALPS black.
I feel like Omnikey is one of those must haves. I have wanted one for like 7 years and I finally got one NIB and it exceeded my expectations. I also feel like everyone should have some form of monterey keyboard or blue ALPS board too. Also an old school cherry board. There's really too many awesome old keyboards to list. Just buy them all.
Blue and white are clicky, orange, salmon and black are tactile, yellow and green are linear. Plus a bunch more.I feel like Omnikey is one of those must haves. I have wanted one for like 7 years and I finally got one NIB and it exceeded my expectations. I also feel like everyone should have some form of monterey keyboard or blue ALPS board too. Also an old school cherry board. There's really too many awesome old keyboards to list. Just buy them all.
At this stage I am definitely leaning towards APLS and the DELL AT101W. As far as I understand the black ALPS are the clicky one from that family of switches. Are the blue linear?
LASER keyboard with SMK 2nd Gen switches.
LASER keyboard with SMK 2nd Gen switches.
I have one of those, it is really nice. And, bonus, it is very close to true-ANSI in spite of the bigass Enter.
LASER keyboard with SMK 2nd Gen switches. They're outrageously clicky (described often as a "double-click") and MX compatible. I''m really hoping to one day figure out how to design a 60% PCB for the switches.Those are not outrageously clicky ;p . The clicky rabbit hole goes so much deeper than that xD .Show Image(https://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=48347.0;attach=34808;image)Show Image(https://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=48347.0;attach=34810;image)
Aside from the obvious Model M and F.
...What's the point of seeing keyboards as investments[?] You ain't gonna get rich by flipping keyboards.
And then we can get manufacturers to send him free boards to review.
Did I give any a negative review actually? XD
And then we can get manufacturers to send him free boards to review.
Has he reviewed any current modern boards positively?
Most older keyboards are simply too large to honestly be useful for most people
Most older keyboards are simply too large to honestly be useful for most people, but not all of them.
Also, old Focus boards. Especially the 2001 and 2002.I second these. I found one locally for cheap and it's got a nice feel for a 'cheap' board. :thumb:Show Image(http://cdn.overclock.net/6/63/600x402px-LL-63e70db5_DSC_00182.jpeg)
Every board comes with awesome doubleshot caps and you can get anything from SKCM Blue, SKCM White, or one of many clones. The older the better and also ones built in Taiwan instead of China, but I had a 95' board from China that had still had SKCM White :confused:
Their boards with built in calculators are also really cool and not too rare, but they are unreliable as **** (like most Focus stuff tbh) so they might be good for keycap and switch harvesting if you don't feel like fixing it up (probably just a ****ty controller)