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Title: Odd keys on F-XT?
Post by: ander on Mon, 07 January 2019, 23:11:22

I was looking at this Model F-XT on eBay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-PERSONAL-COMPUTER-1801449-MECHANICAL-SPRING-KEYBOARD-VINTAGE/143082867472) and noticed something odd about a couple of keys:


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A closer shot (which I've enhanced somewhat) shows what look like extensions on Tab and Left Shift:


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Was that a third-party thing you could get for these? (Whatever they're made of, they haven't fared as well as IBM's ABS.)

Title: Re: Odd keys on F-XT?
Post by: mbardeen on Tue, 08 January 2019, 19:41:57

They look homemade...

...and IBM used PBT Keycaps on the Buckling Spring models.

Title: Re: Odd keys on F-XT?
Post by: ander on Tue, 08 January 2019, 20:49:40

Quote from: mbardeen on Tue, 08 January 2019, 19:41:57

They look homemade...

Think so? That would've taken some skill.

Quote from: mbardeen on Tue, 08 January 2019, 19:41:57

...and IBM used PBT Keycaps on the Buckling Spring models.

Of course—the cases were ABS.  :-[

Title: Re: Odd keys on F-XT?
Post by: Sup on Tue, 08 January 2019, 22:10:21

Looks like he melted the topside of a key cap onto a buckelingspring compatible key cap and called it a day lol.

Title: Re: Odd keys on F-XT?
Post by: ThoughtArtist on Mon, 14 January 2019, 01:43:37

That fancy drunken-delight solution still doesn't fix the horrid spacebar unfortunately