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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: pipedream on Mon, 11 October 2010, 22:10:45

Title: [UK] Bunch of AT102W
Post by: pipedream on Mon, 11 October 2010, 22:10:45

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-x-CLICKY-Vintage-Dell-Keyboards-AT102-5-MS-Mouse-/180570749819?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_KeyboardsMice&hash=item2a0adafb7b

Title: [UK] Bunch of AT102W
Post by: jeyoung on Tue, 12 October 2010, 03:13:06

I bought two keyboads from the seller. These are AT102W alright, but his concept of "clean" seems to be flawed. I had to completely dismantle the two, and clean and swap key caps just to make one of them decent and useable. The plates are corroded in places and required WD-40. These are well used keyboards, and the tactile feeling is almost non-existent unless the leaves are tweaked to bring it back.

These keyboards were a nice week-end project and a good opportunity to look at what goes into a mechanical keyboard, but in the end, I've fallen back to using an older IBM rubber dome and a Cherry G84-4100.

Title: [UK] Bunch of AT102W
Post by: pipedream on Tue, 12 October 2010, 05:12:30

Thanks for the heads up about these boards!