But dat price
But dat price
So, a Filco Zero and an original Alps green keyboard are worth less than $100 each, shipped, and the labor and (international) shipping is worth less than $85?
Are you ****ing out of your mind?
Green complicated Alps feel really nice, and this is a very cool looking board. But they ping like CRAZY.What pings like crazy? Green Alps or the Filco Zero? Because I have a Filco Zero and I find it to be very pingy, but I would think linear switches would help with that quite a bit.
I had been suggesting to KBParadise for quite a while now that there could be interest in some switchless V60MTS/V80MTS PCB's (controller/etc already soldered).
This way you don't have to spend time desoldering all the switches and possibly mucking up the PCB. If interested please send them email!
The interesting thing about the keyboard in the auction, besides having green Alps switches, is that it has the white Filco case, instead of the black, and it has laser etched keycaps (almost certainly from a Dell AT101W). Someone built this up the way they really wanted it, and it's far from a stock Zero.Seems so strange that they put so much effort and money I and then went for just about the cheapest, probably ugliest keycaps on the Alps market Oo .
The interesting thing about the keyboard in the auction, besides having green Alps switches, is that it has the white Filco case, instead of the black, and it has laser etched keycaps (almost certainly from a Dell AT101W). Someone built this up the way they really wanted it, and it's far from a stock Zero.Seems so strange that they put so much effort and money I and then went for just about the cheapest, probably ugliest keycaps on the Alps market Oo .
The interesting thing about the keyboard in the auction, besides having green Alps switches, is that it has the white Filco case, instead of the black, and it has laser etched keycaps (almost certainly from a Dell AT101W). Someone built this up the way they really wanted it, and it's far from a stock Zero.Seems so strange that they put so much effort and money I and then went for just about the cheapest, probably ugliest keycaps on the Alps market Oo .
Strange indeed. The very thick dyesub PBT keycaps on my Zenith make all the difference for SKCL Green ALPS.
Wonder who bought it.
What Zenith is that? I didn't know some had PBT caps Oo .The interesting thing about the keyboard in the auction, besides having green Alps switches, is that it has the white Filco case, instead of the black, and it has laser etched keycaps (almost certainly from a Dell AT101W). Someone built this up the way they really wanted it, and it's far from a stock Zero.Seems so strange that they put so much effort and money I and then went for just about the cheapest, probably ugliest keycaps on the Alps market Oo .
Strange indeed. The very thick dyesub PBT keycaps on my Zenith make all the difference for SKCL Green ALPS.
Wonder who bought it.
What Zenith is that? I didn't know some had PBT caps Oo .
The Z-150 keyboard in that topic also has ABS caps, and green Alps. The video in that thread shows a Z-200 / Z-248 keyboard with ABS caps with greens, too. I can't find any PBT ones with yellows, though. I suspect they started off with greens and PBT caps and then transitioned to ABS with greens and then ABS with yellows. The ZKB-2 probably arrived in the middle because I can't find any trace of a ZKB-2 with a yellow spacebar (although there are several pictures with ZKB-2's with ALL caps extremely white, but that could be a coincidence).What Zenith is that? I didn't know some had PBT caps Oo .
his signature says zenith 100-1860.
my 100-1886 also has pbt caps.
both boards have also been made with ABS keys. my guess is that those are the 1860-2 and 1886-2.
it looks like the 1886-2 has 5 screws in the bottom plate, while the 1886 has only 4 screws.
some came with yellow ALPS, some with green ones. (i guess that the ABS versions always came with Yellow alps, and the PBT versions with Greens..)
this thread (http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/zenith-z-150-keyboard-t9094.html) shows a 1886-2 board with ABS caps and yellow alps.
the spacebar of the 1886-2 apparently uses Grey, while the spacebar of my 1886 uses Cream (i think).
hard to confirm my presumptions, though. i just collected some information from a few threads and a few ebay listings :D
anyway, didn't some ZKB2 come with PBT as well? maybe i'm wrong, but i think i remember seeing a picture where only the spacebar was yellowed..
edit: here (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=74307.0)'s one with a plate with 5 screws in the bottom plate, that has green alps. so i was obviously wrong about that bit.