Great keyboards. 10x more solid than the mx11800 with compaq labels. I'm typing on my modified mx11900 right now. Worth $45 new or like new condition in my opinion. Anyone that wants a quality cherry mechanical board should consider this. Key caps are lazrd, 2 x ps2 connections, trash pad is actually pretty decent quality, and these boards make great parts boards for stiffer cherry springs, linear switches, or a case, controller, and pcb for a sawed-off mx11x00 as is all the rage with the kids right now. I would be getting another one as a backup if I hadn't just bought 2 other boards from ebay this week. Seriously, forget what you've heard about blacks, they're good switches and the fact that they were linear never really bothered me. I like stiff, so that was a plus. Although I've always *preferred* tactile, I liked the way they felt so much that I had a hard time committing fully to gutting the switches and putting the springs on brown stems. Glad I did, though.
