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Offline Ogischer

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need help identifying double shot alps keycaps
« on: Thu, 05 May 2016, 04:55:22 »
I know I've seen them here before... It's from an old fax machine or something

Offline xixihaha2008

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Re: need help identifying double shot alps keycaps
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 05 May 2016, 06:11:50 »
 :eek:amazing.......congrats! :thumb: :thumb:

Offline Ogischer

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Re: need help identifying double shot alps keycaps
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 05 May 2016, 07:00:09 »
I'm pretty sure I've seen a custom build keyboard with these. Can't find the thread though...

Offline jacobolus

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Re: need help identifying double shot alps keycaps
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 05 May 2016, 07:02:28 »
Ogischer: did you get one of these?

I have one which I bought from someone on Deskthority, and I know of 2–3 others that have popped up in the forums.

They were from a “one per desk” machine which was both a computer and a phone. Sometimes around here gets called the “Alps phoneboard” or similar.

https://deskthority.net/wiki/ICL_One_Per_Desk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk

You can find a few threads about them in a google search.

In particular, see this thread https://deskthority.net/photos-f62/another-mystery-solved-source-of-my-vintage-alps-doubleshot-t1994.html which has a nice picture of a New Zealand Telecom Computerphone:


In the UK they were rebranded the Merlin Tonto:


The keycap colors were the inspiration for the popular “DSA Retro” set of Cherry MX keycaps.
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Offline CPTBadAss

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Re: need help identifying double shot alps keycaps
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 05 May 2016, 07:16:47 »
Mmmmm. Been seeing a lot of hot Alps caps lately. I really should start trolling eBay again.

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Re: need help identifying double shot alps keycaps
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 05 May 2016, 07:51:03 »
ugh ive been searching for alps caps and man those are really pretty. guess i'm off to ebay to troll troll troll my boat gently down the stream.

if i find one..... i'm keeping it for myself... my precious.
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Offline Ogischer

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Re: need help identifying double shot alps keycaps
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 05 May 2016, 08:18:40 »
Thanks a lot jacobolus!  :thumb:

I got it from the german ebay about a year ago. Only the keyboard without the computerphone. It was described as some unknown keyboard, but I think I already knew it had alps keycaps

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Re: need help identifying double shot alps keycaps
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 06 May 2016, 08:20:53 »
I could use one of those Merlin tontos