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Title: Hello from Spain + Fake alps membrane ?¿
Post by: Konest on Mon, 30 May 2016, 11:53:18

Hello everybody, I'm Konest and I'm from Spain.
Recently I've been interested in the world of mechanical keyboards. Old mechanical keyboards to be exact.
So I asked to my family and they gave me this keyboard that looks like it has alps switches but they're not!

(http://i.imgur.com/3slaXEf.jpg) 

(http://i.imgur.com/zJihe1n.jpg)

And to end my presentation, my goal is to get and old mechanical keyboard with cyrillic keycaps <33

Oh, and sorry for my bad English  ;D

Title: Re: Hello from Spain + Fake alps membrane ?¿
Post by: xtrafrood on Mon, 30 May 2016, 13:56:54

Welcome. New cherry mx compatible Cyrillic sets are pretty popular atm. Enjoypbt makes some in a variety of different colorways.

Rubber dome with Alps slider? Sounds like a keyboard from a Chyros (https://www.youtube.com/user/Chyrosran22) keyboard review video (or something he would mention)

Title: Re: Hello from Spain + Fake alps membrane ?¿
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 31 May 2016, 06:02:26

Welcome to Geekhack!

Slider over rubber dome?  At least the keycaps are Alps!  If a little yellowed, although I can't talk as the NEC APC-H4100E I'm using atm is so yellow its almost brown.

Most of the keycaps with Cyrillic lettering are Cherry MX compatible.  There's not too many older MX boards around, and a lot of those will need spacial interfaces to work with modern PCs.

The classic of the old keyboards is the Model M - usually fairly readily available, although I can't recall seeing keycaps with Cyrillic on them.

By the way what's wrong with your English?  The only flaw I could see is the word "and" instead of "an", which could easily be explained as a typo :p  Infinitely better than my Spanish, which is non-existent :))

Title: Re: Hello from Spain + Fake alps membrane ?¿
Post by: Konest on Tue, 31 May 2016, 12:52:16

Thanks for the answers :)

Then I'll look for an old cherry keyboard and the cyrillic keycaps  ;D

Title: Re: Hello from Spain + Fake alps membrane ?¿
Post by: xtrafrood on Tue, 31 May 2016, 13:40:32

I can link a few of the most popular cyrillic sets available (AFAIK) for USD but I'm not sure of the shipping costs, etc.

www.originativeco.com - keeps a few in stock.

There's also an interest check (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=81833.0) for classic grey/beige Cyrillic (or Russian) keycaps that will probably become a GB in the future.