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Title: Dell AT101W anyone?
Post by: blueSmoke on Thu, 25 July 2013, 04:45:03

Pretty cheap at 27$ each. He says he has 7 available tho I think he may have more. Black ALPS sliders, keys need cleaning/retrobriting. Good for some sort of projects, or may be replace the blacks with macally clears?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dell-AT101W-Wired-PS-2-Alps-CM-Clicky-Standard-Discolored-Keyboard-/121145445845?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item1c34d4cdd5 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dell-AT101W-Wired-PS-2-Alps-CM-Clicky-Standard-Discolored-Keyboard-/121145445845?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item1c34d4cdd5)

Title: Re: Dell AT101W anyone?
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 25 July 2013, 05:42:51

Curious to try one, but not at the price it would cost to get one to Australia.

And not that yellow.

Title: Re: Dell AT101W anyone?
Post by: Techno Trousers on Thu, 25 July 2013, 07:19:58

He's been posting these up one at a time for a while now. Must be blowing out final stock now. That is a great price if you've got the patience for retr0brite.

Title: Re: Dell AT101W anyone?
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 25 July 2013, 07:39:13

Quote from: Techno Trousers on Thu, 25 July 2013, 07:19:58

That is a great price if you've got the patience for retr0brite.

I would say that is about the going rate. If you have patience you would probably get a better one for that price ($31 shipped).

I have tried Retr0brite and never had success. Keys always turn upside-down. I recently got a rubber dome board with MX-style keys, and I plan to glue a set of plunger stems to the bottom of a pan, put the keys in, and fill to cover them with liquid. I feel sure that it will work well.

But I have never seen anything that would hold Alps keys upright, have you? Otherwise, how do you do it?

Title: Re: Dell AT101W anyone?
Post by: terrpn on Thu, 25 July 2013, 10:02:17

oxyclean+hydrogen peroxide+sunlight.............

Title: Re: Dell AT101W anyone?
Post by: Techno Trousers on Thu, 25 July 2013, 11:46:48

I have a board awaiting retr0briting, and I'm planning to do the "paint on gel" method from retr0bright.wikispaces.com so I don't have to leave them immersed.

Title: Re: Dell AT101W anyone?
Post by: poxeclipse on Thu, 25 July 2013, 13:05:34

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-AT101W-Clicky-Keyboard-PS-2-Excellent-Condition-Extremely-Clean/121147809160?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D16804%26meid%3D103563079889622838%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D7926%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D121145445845%26

Title: Re: Dell AT101W anyone?
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 26 July 2013, 19:29:28

Quote from: fohat.digs on Thu, 25 July 2013, 07:39:13

I recently got a rubber dome board with MX-style keys, and I plan to glue a set of plunger stems to the bottom of a pan, put the keys in, and fill to cover them with liquid.

But I have never seen anything that would hold Alps keys upright, have you?

Prepare to be amazed.

Less than 48 hours after posting that, I find an old Packard Bell keyboard at a salvage store for $3. I almost avoided even touching it, since I have bought a couple of old Packard Bells in the past for their MX-compatible but unexciting ABS key caps, and I don't even need them. (plus, they have bigass Enters and 1.25 Escapes) But curiosity got the best of me, and I popped a cap.

It looked to be Alps-compatible, so I bought it. I got home, and it actually worked! And, although ABS, it looks to be a decent-quality laser printing job!

Almost as important, if not more so, I got a set of Alps-compatible plunger stems, so I can do the same thing and glue them to the bottom of a pan for retr0briting Alps caps from those old Apples.

For keyboard science!