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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: HaaTa on Mon, 10 January 2011, 10:33:12
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I'm not familiar with this switch or keyboard manufacturer.
(http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/7/2/5/4/9/6/webimg/438536427_o.jpg)
(http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/7/2/5/4/9/6/webimg/438536506_o.jpg)
(http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/7/2/5/4/9/6/webimg/438536570_o.jpg)
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-KAYPRO-SANKO-KEYBOARD-JAPAN-/290520962234?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item43a46614ba#ht_5167wt_1139 (http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-KAYPRO-SANKO-KEYBOARD-JAPAN-/290520962234?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item43a46614ba#ht_5167wt_1139)
No doubleshots and expensive for a potentially crap board, so I don't want it.
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It looks like this keyboard (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=6861) with Oki switches that Webwit posted about.
I wrote about the switch in another thread yesterday. I find it quite interesting. I would like to try it, but I think this board is a bit expensive for me to just try-out.
The spring rests on the top of the shaft. The key cap presses on the middle of the spring, stretching the top half down. When the bottom of the spring touches a membrane, the switch actuates and then there is added resistance from compression of the bottom half of the spring.
The click is oddly enough achieved by a single loop of the bottom half of the spring moving over a ledge inside the shaft -- if this keyboard is indeed clicky and not just clacky. There is a non-clicky version of this switch. Sellers sometimes confuse clicky with clacky.
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Ooo, very interesting. I would like to try an Oki switch as well.
But yeah, I agree too expensive just for a try.
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We could all pitch in, and then pass it around. I'm sort of in the same boat. Interested, but not at that price.