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[SOLD] NEC PC-9801 laptop board (Alps?)
« on: Thu, 03 May 2018, 21:40:19 »
If this is similar to the boards from NEC's PC-9800 series desktops, it has Alps switches—and it's certainly cheap enough if anyone's looking for a nice set of alphanumerical Japanese sublegends:

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Re: NEC PC-9801 laptop board (Alps?), $20 shipped
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 03 May 2018, 21:54:08 »
Well seeing as the username is blaise170, which is a user here, I doubt that they are alps, don't think he would sell them that cheap if they had alps. But I could be wrong.

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Re: NEC PC-9801 laptop board (Alps?), $20 shipped
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 03 May 2018, 21:55:48 »
Well seeing as the username is blaise170, which is a user here, I doubt that they are alps, don't think he would sell them that cheap if they had alps. But I could be wrong.

Oh, LOL, it's Blaise's... Well, it'd be easy enough to ask him about it too, then.
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Re: NEC PC-9801 laptop board (Alps?), $20 shipped
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 03 May 2018, 22:03:08 »
Well seeing as the username is blaise170, which is a user here, I doubt that they are alps, don't think he would sell them that cheap if they had alps. But I could be wrong.

Oh, LOL, it's Blaise's... Well, it'd be easy enough to ask him about it too, then.

I was about to jump on it then looked at the username.... Hope it sells for his sake, but I won't be the one.

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Re: NEC PC-9801 laptop board (Alps?), $20 shipped
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 19 May 2018, 03:29:07 »
I was about to jump on it then looked at the username.... Hope it sells for his sake, but I won't be the one.

Why? Just because "Blaise" rhymes with "mayonnaise"? You have something against peeps whose names rhyme with condiments?
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Re: [SOLD] NEC PC-9801 laptop board (Alps?)
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 19 May 2018, 03:31:41 »
If this is similar to the boards from NEC's PC-9800 series desktops, it has Alps switches

The 9800 series does not use Alps, but rather NEC's oval switch design and later dome with slider. Some 8800/8801s use Alps though.
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Re: [SOLD] NEC PC-9801 laptop board (Alps?)
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 24 May 2018, 00:16:16 »
It's good getting these things straightened out, even after the sale's over. We're all doing our best to civilize the vintage-keeb world, and bring it out of the Wild West state it's bounced around in for so many years.
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Re: NEC PC-9801 laptop board (Alps?), $20 shipped
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 24 May 2018, 01:42:34 »
Why? Just because "Blaise" rhymes with "mayonnaise"? You have something against peeps whose names rhyme with condiments?

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