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Title: Datacomp DFK191F01 - free shipping in Canada - Anyone heard of this thing?
Post by: RoflCopter4 on Sun, 28 December 2014, 18:07:59

I wouldn't be all that interested in this if not for the free shipping. I've literally never seen a keyboard with free shipping that didn't obviously incorporate the shipping into the cost by doubling the normal price. Seriously, being Canadian sucks for buying things online, shipping is usually more expensive than the keyboard, and our dollar is in the ****ter right now. So this is rare.

Anyway, I have no idea which switch the board might have and the seller refused to check. Apparently he's already packaged it and can't be bothered to take it out. The Deskthority wiki lists one particular Datacomp board as having Blue Alps, but this is definitely a different model. Could it be white Alps? Domes?

By the way, if it's a decent board I call dibs.

Title: Re: Datacomp DFK191F01 - free shipping in Canada - Anyone heard of this thing?
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 28 December 2014, 19:18:17

datacomp makes boards with all sorts of switches. alps/cherry/clones/etc.

Title: Re: Datacomp DFK191F01 - free shipping in Canada - Anyone heard of this thing?
Post by: Hak Foo on Sun, 28 December 2014, 19:23:14

Probably some flavor of ALPS:
http://demo.kcom.tw/ShowProducts.asp?id=238

I recently bought a Datacomp Mac board-- build was okay,  nice modest case, didn't care for layout.  Had whte ALPS.

Title: Re: Datacomp DFK191F01 - free shipping in Canada - Anyone heard of this thing?
Post by: RoflCopter4 on Wed, 31 December 2014, 16:17:07

You guys think it might be worth $50 shipped? That's pretty cheap for a keyboard in Canada. Usually shipping alone is $40.

Title: Re: Datacomp DFK191F01 - free shipping in Canada - Anyone heard of this thing?
Post by: jacobolus on Thu, 01 January 2015, 04:22:59

I’m guessing either Futaba, white Alps, or some Alps clone, but who knows.