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Offline Techno Trousers

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Possible buckling spring keyboard?
« on: Tue, 15 July 2014, 12:50:54 »
I'm not familiar with CLI, but it's a 122 key keyboard, and the case shape is exactly like the later Model M 122s. If it's buckling spring it would be a nice source for the elusive white on black BS caps; rather expensive, but much cheaper than an M13. What do you guys think?

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=321462121490
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Offline xavierblak

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Re: Possible buckling spring keyboard?
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 15 July 2014, 13:16:54 »
It might be possible. Just some quick info I stumbled across with some googling.

It looks like you can buy this keyboard new for $125 here. No info as to what type of keys it has.

Kind of related. This site also sells replacement keyboards. And they do mention this, "All of the keyboards below with a "T" in the part number (except the CLIKB122TX) are the heavy duty "clickey" Tactile Feedback models you are familiar with, like those on IBM InfoWindow Twinax and Coax Terminals."
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Offline Parak

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Re: Possible buckling spring keyboard?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 15 July 2014, 13:22:04 »
Probably peerless or something. They're made in Taiwan so definitely not BS, but if someone wants to be a lab rat and find out for sure... :p
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Re: Possible buckling spring keyboard?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 15 July 2014, 13:42:11 »
I asked the seller to take a picture of the switches, let's hope he replies
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Re: Possible buckling spring keyboard?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 15 July 2014, 18:28:40 »
Picture added, RD
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Offline Techno Trousers

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Re: Possible buckling spring keyboard?
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 15 July 2014, 19:52:50 »
D'oh! I guess that was not completely unexpected. If only we could get Unicomp to produce double shot PBT caps.
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Re: Possible buckling spring keyboard?
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 16 July 2014, 18:43:52 »
Quote from: Techno Trousers on Tue, 15 July 2014, 19:52:50
D'oh! I guess that was not completely unexpected. If only we could get Unicomp to produce double shot PBT caps.

Unicomp does not have the tooling for 2-shot, SP or maybe china could likely produce something that's not "too" expensive. The top piece of an IBM keycap wouldn't be that hard to doubleshoot, I do believe.
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