What about we use the amber alps for modifier and blue alps for alpha?
This is not a bad idea actually.
Haha, thanks man! I thought I saw another Hebrew set, but it ended up being this exact same board, haha.
I've seen 2 Hebrew Alps sets, one being your set, in multiple places ). I regularly search ebay with location set to Israel for 'keyboard' and מקלדת. Mechanical boards are very scarce, in a live auction I've only seen Model Ms. However, there are quite a few Quantum branded rubber domes from that time period.
I'm not sure if not many were made or if they just don't make it onto the interwebs. If anyone has anymore pics or info, please share.
Haha, I know! I am spreading the love for my FAME quite a bit, and then of course, there is the board that they came from, an APC Th-5539, which is a relative of the FAME itself. The board was ridiculously flimsy, but the caps were ace.
Hebrew does seem really hard to find OG, so that's why I'm staying off the FAME and just keeping it as a mantle piece. If I could find a way to display it, I would!
I have seen Hebrew Alps caps one other time on an F XT or F AT layout 83-84 key keyboard.
If the hebrew printing is dyesubs it will be perfect
Oooh, yeah. You'd have to look to Acer keyboards, or the original Dells (very annoying to track down outside TaoBao, and then you have stupid shipping costs) or SGI granites for that, if you want standard profile that is. I like AEK caps, but I'm also kinda meh about them due to their odd profile. It's nice, but it doesn't fit the other vintages, literally and aesthetically.
These Tai Hao caps are nice though, mainly because the FAME has a short right shift, and so it fits (I also ANSI-modded mine and eliminated the BAE because I wanted it to be exactly what I wanted and the top of the BAE had no stabilization
).
The only short shift PBT caps I know of for sure are from the IBM 5140.
This one might also be PBT, judging by the case's yellowing. Not gonna lie, I'd love the 1u key beside the short shift to say "Turbo," that would be sick.
I hear the pad printing on these is very resilient though, and hell, people really like GMK's alt legend keys like Cyrillic, and they are pad printed.
I do agree though, dye subbed PBT would be the best set up for this, and I would also be less scared of shining them. Would be really hard to find though. This one is scarce enough!