Hello everyone,
I am fairly new to the world of mechanical keyboards. I recently bought a Das S Ultimate with brown switches, and I haven't been able to stand typing on anything else since.
In any case, that isn't what I'm here for at the moment. I made this thread because when I was out and about today, I stumbled across an old NEC mechanical keyboard in a used computer store. Images can be found here:
http://imgur.com/a/F9yZp#Zqpzt Forgive me, for I hadn't cleaned it when I took the pictures, and it REALLY needs to be cleaned.
One of the keycaps was missing, so it was very obvious at a glance that it was mechanical. The catch is that I can't seem to figure out what kind it is. I thought it was an ALPS, but after checking out the
wiki, it didn't seem to match any of them. They also don't strike me as buckling spring, though I really don't know what the external part of those switches look like.
As far as what the switches feel and sound like, they are tactile and clicky, though it doesn't seem as loud as videos of blue switches would indicate. They take almost the same force to press as my brown switches do. I haven't tried cherry blues, but I imagine that this switch feels and sounds similar to those.
The overall construction is quite nice. After opening it up, I found that it is steel plate mounted, and it also has a little recessed switch that toggles from AT to PC/XT. Despite its obvious age, the switches still feel quite nice. Also, the keys that would have been used most commonly feel very consistent with the keys that likely had less use. Once this thing is cleaned up, it will be very nice to type on.
It took me a while to get to this point, but I hope someone can help identify these things. I did some research, but cannot identify them. Anyone here know?
