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Gray Industrial non-clicky Model F-XT, starting at $22
« on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 03:21:18 »
Here's something I've never seen—what appears to be an IBM Industrial (gray) Model F XT:





...with rubber domes rather than buckling springs, like Model M 71G*'s. A strange beast or what? Even though it's an RD, I'd think someone would snap it up because it's so unusual.
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Re: Gray Industrial non-clicky Model F-XT, starting at $22
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 03:45:39 »
that looks painted to me.

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Re: Gray Industrial non-clicky Model F-XT, starting at $22
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 03:47:10 »
It doesn't use buckling spring switches.

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Re: Gray Industrial non-clicky Model F-XT, starting at $22
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 18:28:32 »
It would be cool if the innards could be swapped with an F XT.
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Re: Gray Industrial non-clicky Model F-XT, starting at $22
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 19:02:39 »
Especially in an XTant scenario.
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Re: Gray Industrial non-clicky Model F-XT, starting at $22
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 31 July 2015, 07:04:47 »
It would be cool if the innards could be swapped with an F XT.

They can't.  It's a flat key assembly, the XT assembly doesn't fit.  Even if it did, the top case doesn't have the correct curve.
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