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Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: magebro on Fri, 15 July 2011, 20:29:58
Hi Guys,

I just found this keyboard for $1 and I couldn't say no for that price! It does need to be cleaned but has a full set of doubleshots and has no shiny keys.

I think the switches are white simplified alps but I might be wrong. The switches don't say alps on them but I read somewhere that some of the simplified versions don't have the alps logo on them.

Any help would be much appreciated :D

Thanks in advance.

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Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: theferenc on Fri, 15 July 2011, 20:35:09
Go here: http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/

Enter KM9 in the first box, and 88K in the second. The whole ID returns nothing, but it seems to include the model number as well. It's giving me errors at the moment, or I'd have just answered the question.
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: The Solutor on Fri, 15 July 2011, 20:44:35
Likely a Chicony board, almost surely not complicated, although I'm not an ALPS expert.
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: Touch_It on Fri, 15 July 2011, 22:04:25
its a chicony kb-5881.  

fyi you should be able to swap the cord out for a ps2 cord if u can salvage one from another kb
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: magebro on Sun, 17 July 2011, 01:08:27
Thanks a lot guys! I wasn't expecting such definite answers.

For future reference though, how do you know its a Chicony board? It doesn't seem to have any branding on it.

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Simplified Type 2 Clickys (XMs).
Are these the same switches that are in the Filco Zero and the Matias Tactile Pro?

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its a chicony kb-5881.

fyi you should be able to swap the cord out for a ps2 cord if u can salvage one from another kb
Is that easy to do? I don't think I would need to though as it came with a PS/2 adapter.
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: theferenc on Sun, 17 July 2011, 02:09:18
The Zero can be either XMs or Fukkas, as far as I know, and the Matias has Fukkas. Which switch the Zero has depends on age: the early ones had XMs, the later ones had Fukkas. I've been considering trying to find one of the later models.
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: magebro on Sun, 17 July 2011, 02:54:55
Quote from: theferenc;381860
The Zero can be either XMs or Fukkas, as far as I know, and the Matias has Fukkas. Which switch the Zero has depends on age: the early ones had XMs, the later ones had Fukkas. I've been considering trying to find one of the later models.


Which are better? XMs or Fukkas?
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: theferenc on Sun, 17 July 2011, 10:45:03
I prefer Fukkas, personally. And from the wiki, anyway, it seems that is a common sentiment.
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: theferenc on Sun, 17 July 2011, 10:55:11
Which likely explains the feeling in the wiki...
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: The Solutor on Sun, 17 July 2011, 10:59:05
can describe bad ? Noisy ? Mushy ? Too stiff ?
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: theferenc on Sun, 17 July 2011, 11:03:23
Sorry, I wasn't implying you were the only one. But the feeling of the post in the wiki is basically "eww...". I happen to agree with it, but it still struck me as funny.
Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: The Solutor on Sun, 17 July 2011, 11:19:12
Two birds with one stone... learned something about XMs, learned a new word.

BTW this is really funny...

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Title: Can someone help me identify this keyboard?
Post by: Touch_It on Sun, 17 July 2011, 14:18:37
Quote from: Touch_It;381230
its a chicony kb-5881.  

fyi you should be able to swap the cord out for a ps2 cord if u can salvage one from another kb



very very easy.  just the ground wire and a 4 pin connector. no soldering involved.  what i can\t guarantee is that taking one from another keyboard is gna have the same cable.  i happened to have another keyboard. compaq rubber dome with a chicony controller in it. :)

here is a pic to get a better idea

(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z274/luckyduck_man/IMG_0443.jpg)