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Offline MehStrongBadMeh

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Salutations Keyboard People
« on: Tue, 01 March 2016, 21:50:43 »
Greetings,
I am MehStrongBadMeh, and I am no stranger to mechanical keyboards. I have amassed a small collection of mostly vintage keyboards. This includes a good old Model M, a bizarre NEC APC-H410E, a cute little Cherry G84-4100, and another Model M that I refurbished and modded into a blank, black, usb keyboard. In addition, I found an old Dell AT101W in the back storage room of where I work and use that as my work keyboard. My main, however, is a Corsair K95 RGB with Cherry MX Blue switches. I have replaced the G-keys with transparent relegendable keycaps and I am slowly replacing the F-row with transparent artisan keycaps based around around a robot/armor/tech theme. I like lighting them up in whatever color I choose using the RGB lighting. I eventually plan to replace its full keyset after it starts to wear down (I have some ideas for working around the bottom row). I prefer clicky switches, like the Cherry MX Blues and Buckling Springs.

Recap of boards mentioned:
  • IBM Model M - Buckling Spring
  • IBM Model M (modded) - Buckling Spring
  • NEC APC-H410E - NEC Oval Blue
  • Cherry G84-4100 - Cherry ML
  • Dell AT101W - Alps Complicated Black
  • Corsair K95 RGB - Cherry MX Blue (pictured below)

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Re: Salutations Keyboard People
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 01 March 2016, 22:13:56 »
Man, kudos for the homestar runner theme
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Re: Salutations Keyboard People
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 04 March 2016, 04:26:47 »
Welcome to Geekhack!

A very nice collection you have :)

I have an NEC APC-H4100E, which is basically the same as the APC-H410E, maybe regional difference or something.  Interesting the way it actuates BEFORE the click.

If you like buckling springs, have you tried MX green switches?  Just like blues, but much stiffer :)
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

NEC APC-H4100E | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED red | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED green | Link 900243-08 | CM QFR MX black | KeyCool 87 white MX reds | HHKB 2 Pro | Model M 02-Mar-1993 | Model M 29-Nov-1995 | CM Trigger (broken) | CM QFS MX green | Ducky DK9087 Shine 3 TKL Yellow Edition MX black | Lexmark SSK 21-Apr-1994 | IBM SSK 13-Oct-1987 | CODE TKL MX clear | Model M 122 01-Jun-1988

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