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Title: what's this ?
Post by: Isac on Fri, 20 May 2011, 15:48:44

asked my father if he has any old mechanical keyboards (since he is originally mainframe technician) and he gave me this

blue switches have "AT 8" and "AT 9" writing on them, white switch has "AT 4"


[ATTACH=CONFIG]18330[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]18331[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]18332[/ATTACH]

any ideas ? seems like some no name product from Czechoslovakia  :help:

Title: what's this ?
Post by: noodles256 on Fri, 20 May 2011, 15:49:34

wlcm 2 gh.

I am sure someone will chime in on that board

Title: what's this ?
Post by: DaemonRaccoon on Fri, 20 May 2011, 15:54:13

HQK2VHKEYMOUSE?

Not Czech, but Taiwanese. Another thread has the answer: Simplified Type 2 XM (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?10659-New-guy-needs-help-identifying-keyboard-amp-Alps-like-sliders).

Title: what's this ?
Post by: Zet on Fri, 20 May 2011, 15:59:56

Welcome to geekhack,

Nice board! I wish my dad had a mech to give me on the first place, lol

Title: what's this ?
Post by: Isac on Fri, 20 May 2011, 16:13:49

Quote from: DaemonRaccoon;349116

HQK2VHKEYMOUSE?

Not Czech, but Taiwanese. Another thread has the answer: Simplified Type 2 XM (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?10659-New-guy-needs-help-identifying-keyboard-amp-Alps-like-sliders).

thanks, looks like a good start, but my switch is a little bit different, the shape of that blue piece is a clear rectangle

also it seems that the computer were made in CS, but the keyboard was probably imported

Quote from: Zet;349118

Welcome to geekhack,

Nice board! I wish my dad had a mech to give me on the first place, lol

thanks

yeah, I loved to visit him at work when I was young, that huge room with all those computers (or probably just parts of one big computer) was really amazing, maybe a reason why I work as a developer today ;]

Title: what's this ?
Post by: DaemonRaccoon on Fri, 20 May 2011, 16:31:35

Quote from: Isac;349126

thanks, looks like a good start, but my switch is a little bit different, the shape of that blue piece is a clear rectangle

I noticed that as well, it could be a Monterey or another similar clone switch. I don't do Alps, ask Ripster.

Title: what's this ?
Post by: Isac on Sat, 21 May 2011, 05:31:03

more images (I don't have any good camera, so it's not really perfect :[)

[ATTACH=CONFIG]18355[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]18356[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]18357[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]18358[/ATTACH]


also I don't want to take anything apart ;] I will try to clean it and use the keyboard ;]

Title: what's this ?
Post by: Isac on Sun, 22 May 2011, 05:01:03

heh, nice, thanks

I will try to clean it and we will see, I just noticed that a spacebar is little bit stiff on edges :[ any idea how to fix that ? ;]

Title: what's this ?
Post by: keyb_gr on Sun, 22 May 2011, 15:52:34

Quote from: Isac;349756

I will try to clean it and we will see, I just noticed that a spacebar is little bit stiff on edges :[ any idea how to fix that ? ;]

How you mean - it doesn't go down properly when hit at the very left or right?

Then make sure you've hooked up the stabilizer to the key in the right way. The loose ends of the metal piece must attach to it in some way. (We may even have a wiki on these things... else it should be in the "all about keys" wiki.)