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Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: Voixdelion on Tue, 15 June 2010, 12:40:13: FOCUS 2001 was $75 Now down to $45 BIN:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260521096394
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: chimera15 on Tue, 15 June 2010, 16:05:51: Shipping can't be calculated for my area? Wonder what kind of switches it has..
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: kishy on Tue, 15 June 2010, 17:47:49: Well, experience tells us white clicky Alps (but not more specific than that).
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: chimera15 on Tue, 15 June 2010, 18:04:17: Yup, no windows key, it might have reals or blues, but not being able to calcluate shipping is bad.
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: aegrotatio on Tue, 15 June 2010, 20:59:19: Hmm, they're turning up even cheaper at those sellers that rent storage units.
I think I'm going to support the modern ALPS-alike keyboard makers instead of getting these refurbs.
The location of the backslash/pipe key alone on these Focus keyboards will send me into a murderous rage.

But to thank you all, here's one for $39.95 BIN $14.95 shipping from a storage unit renter:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Focus-Electronics-FK-2001-Clicky-Keyboard-Plug-Fs-/230488022900

Speaking of keyboards, Goodwill Industries is on to us. My local outlet is selling all its keyboards for at least $15 last I checked.
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: lmnop on Wed, 16 June 2010, 07:02:34: I thought the Focus used Simplified Alps in White?

the other day this guy over at OCN posted a keyboard he found it appears to be some kind of Focus OEM here are some pictures he took. he said there is no Alps logo and the Keycaps are Double Shot.

(http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr323/papant7/SAM_1694.jpg)
(http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr323/papant7/SAM_1699.jpg)

so is it a Focus OEM or another keyboard?
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 16 June 2010, 07:12:17: There were many variations of the Focus board using different varieties of complicated and simplified Alps.
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: didjamatic on Wed, 16 June 2010, 08:39:59: Every focus I have had has used Complicated White ALPS, but they have all been older ones that look like Ripsters pic above. Very nice keyboards... but I've never been able to score one with a dust cover. They often have clips still in place but most people discarded their dust covers when they used them.
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: chimera15 on Wed, 16 June 2010, 09:13:43: Really old ones use blues, older ones use white complicated, the newest ones use fakes, some are fake blues some are fake whites. It's pot luck. You can usually tell fakes because they have windows keys, but there are fakes in no windows key ones too.
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: Mental Hobbit on Wed, 16 June 2010, 11:42:21: Quote from: lmnop;193595

so is it a Focus OEM or another keyboard?

Doesn't look like a Focus to me.
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: itlnstln on Wed, 16 June 2010, 11:50:01: Quote from: Mental Hobbit;193694
Doesn't look like a Focus to me.

This does:

(http://z.about.com/d/cars/1/0/a/P/ag_06focus_zx4f.jpg)
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: lmnop on Wed, 16 June 2010, 15:54:30: he posted this picture too but I am not sure if he took it or used it as a reference.

(http://images.plurk.com/3290206_0cf2f8461e56e394704ee70ee0c5a7c7.jpg)

I looked on Sandy's and couldn't find many Alps Keyboards with controllers placed above the cursors. I googled the controller and it yielded this (http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-TW&u=http://android.cool3c.com/article/5365%3Fpage%3D85&ei=BcoVTMKhKqOaMsWt5Z8L&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dp8949ah%2B8883%2Bapc%2Bf-1%26hl%3Den).
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 16 June 2010, 17:21:14: Quote from: Voixdelion;193320
FOCUS 2001 was $75 Now down to $45 BIN:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260521096394

Yeah, guess why he dropped the price, no one was buying it! lol.
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 16 June 2010, 17:47:23: I played a lot of GTA4 and L4D2 on my SGI. Worked for me...
Title: Remember the movie "Willow"?
Post by: Voixdelion on Thu, 17 June 2010, 07:49:18: Quote from: lmnop;193749
he posted this picture too but I am not sure if he took it or used it as a reference.

Show Image
(http://images.plurk.com/3290206_0cf2f8461e56e394704ee70ee0c5a7c7.jpg)

I looked on Sandy's and couldn't find many Alps Keyboards with controllers placed above the cursors. I googled the controller and it yielded this (http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-TW&u=http://android.cool3c.com/article/5365%3Fpage%3D85&ei=BcoVTMKhKqOaMsWt5Z8L&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dp8949ah%2B8883%2Bapc%2Bf-1%26hl%3Den).

I look at this and think of Billy Barty looking up at Willow saying:

"The bones tell me. . . nothing!"
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: British on Fri, 18 June 2010, 08:51:33: OK, I have to know... what does BIN stand for ?!
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: British on Fri, 18 June 2010, 10:39:49: Woot, thanks for the tip.

Err BTW, I'm pretty sure I saw some people talk about "NIB" here and there... Now I Buy ? :wink:
Title: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: British on Fri, 18 June 2010, 10:50:19: Good to know, thanks again.
Title: Re: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: Daniel Beardsmore on Sun, 17 November 2013, 09:23:16: Quote from: lmnop on Wed, 16 June 2010, 15:54:30
he posted this picture too but I am not sure if he took it or used it as a reference.

Show Image
(http://images.plurk.com/3290206_0cf2f8461e56e394704ee70ee0c5a7c7.jpg)

I was just thinking that, if anything, the switch looked like an APC series switch (they have the narrow numbering at the top left) but I couldn't be sure from the photo.

Looks like an APC Clicker board then.
Title: Re: Focus 2001 on sale BIN
Post by: ideus on Sun, 17 November 2013, 09:49:53: I sold one of this early this year in like new condition. They are great keyboards, depends on your feeling for ALPS.