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Title: Rare Cherry MX switches
Post by: Chloe on Sun, 23 November 2008, 23:24:08

Yellow stem and another with grey casing:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cn&u=http://blog.dengzhe.com/article.asp?id=252

Title: Rare Cherry MX switches
Post by: victheslik on Sun, 23 November 2008, 23:34:09

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Title: Rare Cherry MX switches
Post by: xsphat on Mon, 24 November 2008, 02:03:47

Collect the whole set!

Title: Rare Cherry MX switches
Post by: wellington1869 on Mon, 24 November 2008, 06:40:46

that was extremely informative...

Title: Rare Cherry MX switches
Post by: Chloe on Mon, 24 November 2008, 09:36:50

It sounds like the grey-cased "alternative action" (MX1A-3xxx) stays depressed until pressed again. This might be quite useful for some function keys. Digikey don't have them in stock though:
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail?name=MX1A31NW-ND

Quote from: xsphat

Collect the whole set!

:lol: The only ones I'm really interested in right now are the blue and white.

Title: Rare Cherry MX switches
Post by: lowpoly on Mon, 24 November 2008, 10:31:56

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This might be quite useful for some function keys.

The Apple Ext. II has this for CapsLock.