The auctioned keyboard has early complicated white ALPS. What you never know for sure is if it has the correct leafs which I'm going to refer to as Hanzo steel leafs. Hanzo's have a less pronounced step on them which makes them smoother. Some Blues and Some whites have them but not all. Your best odds of finding some are stripping them out of a Leading Edge DC-2014, but I don't know if all of them had them. I thought resistance would be at least 10g different between these and regular complicateds but it was identical as proven with a resistance gauge. What was different is the feel of the switch as it goes over the tactile bump.
Hanzo leaf complicated on left, regular vintage complicated on right. Both of these are complicated ALPS from keyboards made in the late 80's. I opened them myself from Northgate 102 Gold Metal Label keyboards. My Theory is that ALPS designs changed sometime from 1988-1990. Color is not always an indicator of exactly what is inside and parts were mixed/matched so springs, sliders, leafs, etc could be inconsistent. I heard from a reliable source that the switches were made in Japan earlier, then production moved to mainland Asia and some designs/tooling changed. Later even more dramatic changes came to ALPS as other viriations came. See the Wiki.
Venturing any further into ALPS will lead to madness, so most of you should just stick to MX key cap group buys if you want to keep your sanity.
