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Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: SCTony on Sat, 28 November 2009, 18:57:05: Looks like a Focus FK-2001 and a Compaq, starting bid $1. Shipping $6.
Maybe it doesn't smell like hemp.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370297673912&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370297673912&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123)
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: Hak Foo on Sat, 28 November 2009, 23:59:56: Quote from: SCTony;137040
Looks like a Focus FK-2001 and a Compaq, starting bid $1. Shipping $6.
Maybe it doesn't smell like hemp.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370297673912&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370297673912&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123)

Can he roll the Compaq up and smoke it?
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 29 November 2009, 09:44:01: That's not a bad deal. The Compaq is a pretty good rubber dome and the Focus has some sort of white ALPS.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: ricercar on Sun, 29 November 2009, 12:03:34: Quote from: kishy;137104
And by tactics I mean I'll just make it more expensive for you if you don't let me have it :)

What's to prevent the other guy from doing the same to you?
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 29 November 2009, 13:18:10: Quote from: kishy;137179
I don't know much about Focus overall but Googling reveals the 2001 is "clicky" and on this site some people have associated it with Alps. Good enough for me to be interested.

Especially if they're "simplified" - from what I read, the simplified ones are louder and more difficult to push, which is good.

It depends on what vintage of Focus you have. My Focus is from 1989 and has the complicated ALPS. They have a good feel to them and are almost as good as a Model M.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 29 November 2009, 14:52:40: Going by the pics on Sandy's site, this is the original FK2001 with real-deal White Alps.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 29 November 2009, 14:58:01: This auction sure is a real deal starting at just a dollar.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: chimera15 on Sun, 29 November 2009, 15:00:13: Quote from: ch_123;137225
Going by the pics on Sandy's site, this is the original FK2001 with real-deal White Alps.

Yeah, Sandy has a general guide, but I followed this and I got a 2001 with normal white simplified alps, not blue simplified still, so it's not 100%. There's some variation. The indication of the windows key and everything isn't a solid 100% delineation.

http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/focus2001.html (http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/focus2001.html)

But yeah it looks to me like that's a type 1, but it's tough to tell, if so it'll most likely have real complicated ones. It might also be the windows key version though in which case it'll have fakes.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 29 November 2009, 15:05:40: Did yours also have an AT connector?
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: chimera15 on Sun, 29 November 2009, 15:12:10: Quote from: ch_123;137232
Did yours also have an AT connector?

Yeah, I think so. I gave it to my mom. lol
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 29 November 2009, 15:22:44: Does she use it on her computer?
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sun, 29 November 2009, 16:09:58: I have a similar Compaq keyboard, they always warn you about how to use a keyboard properly as to reduce risk of injury.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: SCTony on Sun, 29 November 2009, 16:40:26: Simplified vs Complicated - is that what this pic shows? Simplified on the left and Complicated on the right? The switch on the right(complicated?) has a much better feel to me. Smoother and more refined. I tried taking the click-leafs out of the fk-2001 but it didn't work like I had hoped. Maybe greasing the click-leafs will do the trick.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: SCTony on Sun, 29 November 2009, 17:13:55: Yes, the Focus was not pleasant to use- that's why I tried removing the click-leafs. The T key doesn't work properly anyway so I am probably done with that board. The Leading Edge is quite nice though.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 29 November 2009, 17:29:02: My Focus from 1989 has the same style keys as that one with the 104 layout.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: chimera15 on Sun, 29 November 2009, 17:36:16: Quote from: microsoft windows;137235
Does she use it on her computer?

Yeah she does.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 29 November 2009, 17:38:35: Good for her. It's nice to see it when others finally see the light (of the clicky keyboard's NumLock).
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: cwilson on Mon, 30 November 2009, 03:04:47: Hey if someone here won this, would they mind selling me the top right clip that holds the lid on the FK2001? I lost mine a year ago and haven't been able to use the lid since.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: SCTony on Mon, 30 November 2009, 06:22:59: Cwilson- mine came with two clips and no lid- you are welcome to them. Send me a pm for details.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: chimera15 on Mon, 30 November 2009, 06:44:26: Whoever won it, good buy, $12 all told, well done. wow.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: hyperlinked on Mon, 30 November 2009, 12:57:47: Quote from: webwit;137182
I'm the guy that snipes the bone from the two idiot dogs fighting over it using a tactic of bidding high and running out of steam early.

I can die happy. I'm agreeing with Webwit.

That "technique" Kishy, can also mean getting stuck with an overbid too. I'm sure you very well know this as a risk. I'm just saying this out loud in case some not too bright person stumbles across your comment and thinks he's found the secret to beating the system and becoming king of eBay.

If you're using "techniques" to screw over your competitor or come away with an amazing win... call it what it is... gambling. You win some. You lose some, but the house almost always wins in the end.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: cwilson on Mon, 30 November 2009, 15:00:03: SCTony, you are gentleman and a scholar, sir. I'll send you a pm and some moola for your kindness.

kishy I'll post some pics in this gallery (http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/643970/1/KB?h=21927d) as soon as I can (I don't know how to post pics here).
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: SCTony on Mon, 30 November 2009, 15:39:50: "Anybody ever tried a Compaq rubber dome?" - Yes, I think Compaq has some very nice rubber dome keyboards. I picked up a KB-9963 at a thrift store and liked it enough to eBay a NIB one. Doesn't beat a mechanical kb but is nice.
Title: Focus FK-2001
Post by: chimera15 on Mon, 30 November 2009, 17:03:31: Quote from: ripster;137538
Seller sent me this:

So it looks like I can dink around with the Compaq too.

Why the seller had this auction end at 4am East Coast Time I'll never know.

I was up, I shoulda bid. I didn't think it would go for that little. lol I kind of met my keyboard quota with the siig and scorpius I just bought, or I definitely would have.