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Title: List of vintage alps keyboards
Post by: ryn1x on Tue, 29 October 2019, 22:21:16

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Title: Re: List of vintage alps keyboards
Post by: Lanrefni on Tue, 29 October 2019, 22:58:03

https://deskthority.net/wiki/Category:Alps_OEM_keyboards

There are probably a lot more that aren't listed.

Title: Re: List of vintage alps keyboards
Post by: JP on Wed, 30 October 2019, 07:43:01

Too many to keep track of. DT's wiki has some good coverage of this topic but you might be better off searching for each Alps switch type.

Ex:
https://deskthority.net/wiki/Alps_SKCM_Blue

Title: Re: List of vintage alps keyboards
Post by: Leslieann on Thu, 31 October 2019, 05:22:46

It's not nearly a complete list and probably never will be.

As if the numbers alone aren't bad enough it's also not unusual to find a model that had different switches depending date of manufacturer or where it was going in the world (and not just Alps!). Then you have sellers who don't know or won't answer and if they do know or look up what you are asking to try and figure it out they raise the price.

Such a frustrating switch.
The dumbest part is that it's not like they are rare, like Model M's and Apple II's they were everywhere.

Title: Re: List of vintage alps keyboards
Post by: ryn1x on Thu, 31 October 2019, 20:56:22

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