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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: 486 on Mon, 03 September 2012, 01:14:52
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/251136584534?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Won both these. Top board looked very alpsy to me. It has the doubleshot keys in Alps style and the bigass enter. I hope it has alps as it is a smaller board (compared with the Compaq). However, it has that BTC metal back panel but BTC caps look way different. I hope it is some Alps clone like montereys or Omron, really want those.
Edit: just took another look at it, If you look carefully in pic 2, you can see the little banner thing that Focus 2001 boards have under the Function keys. Even more proof that it is an Alps board. I think it might be a 2001 clone. W00T!
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Nice :)
Reminds me of the day when a mechanical keyboard of some sort was standard with all "personal computers".
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Here's the FCC-ID grant information:
It was issued in 1987, so it'd better not be RD
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/Eas731GrantForm.cfm?mode=COPY&application_id=62617&fcc_id=GOG3YLTH-5539
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That top one must have been made for the Banana Republic.
The Compaq board has the logo I remember from the 386N – don't recall the keyboards on those being anything special. Windows 3 on a Compaq 386N was ridiculously painful.
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Also didn't some older Compaq boards use SDL cables?
It's not clear in any pics of the board but it would be nice to have a compaq branded SDL cable.
The board on top i have a big suspection it is white alps like the focus 2001. I already have a blue alps board (also came from the same seller) so a white alps or even better, monterey or orange omrons. I bought a whole lot of stuff from the seller so he is frieghting it and it should arrive soon.
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Did I call it or what?
Alps compatible. It arrived with 3 other board that I wanted but this one stands out. Weirdest board I have ever seen.
The switches are not alps but are alps compatible. They look almost like blue alps but they have a slightly different shape.
The switches do not feel like blue alps though. They feel like Montereys. So imagine a blue alps switch housing with a monterey switch assembly inside and that is what this switch is. W00T.
This board was such good money for the price I paid. it's also xt/at switchable.
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Pics?
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Certainly. After I clean the boards. I want them to look good in the photos.
I am really satisfied what I got from the seller. 4 awesome boards for about $30.
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Even the one that was bent like a banana? I'm surprised that even works – I guess the PCB must be really flexible.
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It actually isn't bent. I t looks that that way becuase t was sitting on the cable in the pics and the plastic from the front side is ergonomically designed. It feels more like blue alps now that I lubed one of the sliders.