I think the whole point of this project was to use the springs/hammers, barrels, back plate and case from the XT to make this XTant. The only thing custom would be the top plate, PCB and caps.
Yes, everyone understands that. mougrim was talking about a commercial product though. As in, something that can actually be produced and sold at scale, not just frankensteined from a dwindling supply of 30+ year old keyboards.
I doubt that this will ever be a commercial project. People seem not to want older model F's, they seem to pick cherry or topre.
Yeah, because most cherry and topre boards are new. I think number of old cherry boards and old Model F boards maniacs are comparable
Oh, and there a lot less trouble with old cherry boards (most of them). There a lot of companies producing cherry-boards, cherry-clone-boards and so on. And advertising them. But BS boards are produced only by Unicomp. Company, known only amongst us, geeks. Period.
It can be different. Look what done Matias with Alps switches boards.
Customers just can't choose brand-new Model F in nice case, because there ain't any