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Title: Focus FK-2001 $20 + shipping
Post by: nubbinator on Tue, 24 March 2015, 20:05:57

Pictures are crap, but a solid board with White Alps.  If you like fullsize boards, it's a good board to transplant better switches onto.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Focus-Electronic-2001-Mechanical-Wired-Keyboard-5-Pin-DIN-FSQ4VYFK-2001-/371289779736?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5672986e18

Title: Re: Focus FK-2001 $20 + shipping
Post by: Special K on Tue, 24 March 2015, 22:41:35

Don't some of these even have blue alps:

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Focus_FK-2001

Title: Re: Focus FK-2001 $20 + shipping
Post by: nubbinator on Tue, 24 March 2015, 22:45:29

There might be, but I've never seen one with anything other than White Alps or clones.

Title: Re: Focus FK-2001 $20 + shipping
Post by: jacobolus on Wed, 25 March 2015, 03:52:27

I’m pretty sure this one is white Alps, but yes, the earliest ones did have blue-slider switches:
http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/focus2001.html#II%20real_alps_blue

Title: Re: Focus FK-2001 $20 + shipping
Post by: Evo_Spec on Thu, 26 March 2015, 09:06:30

Dammit, i've been wanting one of these for a while but my Japanese paypal isn't setup yet....

Title: Re: Focus FK-2001 $20 + shipping
Post by: engicoder on Thu, 26 March 2015, 10:29:54

Quote from: Special K on Tue, 24 March 2015, 22:41:35

Don't some of these even have blue alps:

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Focus_FK-2001

As far as I can tell, to have a chance you need to find one of the early ones with no serial number on the label, like the example on sandy's page (http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/focus2001.html)
(http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/fk2001blue/blue_lbl.jpg)

Also notice its made in Taiwan vs China