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Offline elbowglue

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My keyboards: Filco Cherry Blue Tenkeyless(daily home), Compaq MX11800 (modded to blacks), Compaq "MX 84u",  Wellington\'s Dampened Endurapro, Pinkalicious Filco Blue Cherry, Chicony KB-5191, Chicony KB-5181, Desko MOS 5023 UP "elbowglue" spos (modded to blues), Siig Minitouch (monterey blue), SMK-88 (blue cherries), Ricercar SPOS
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Offline J888www

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« Reply #1 on: Mon, 01 February 2010, 07:34:50 »
Looks like a Capacitive contacts with coil spring switch, but don't quote me on the info as my eye-sight is deteriorating.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #2 on: Mon, 01 February 2010, 07:49:30 »
Knowing Goldstar, they're probably just rubber domes with a spring for added feel.


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« Reply #3 on: Mon, 01 February 2010, 13:30:49 »
Yep - it's a rebranded BTC 5339.
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« Reply #4 on: Mon, 01 February 2010, 14:03:26 »
Sooo. No one has bought it now. Capacitive != invariably good?
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« Reply #5 on: Mon, 01 February 2010, 14:06:13 »
If you don't like strange layouts, I'd be careful about buying it if I were you.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #6 on: Mon, 01 February 2010, 14:08:20 »
Nope, if that's a capacitive keyboard, then it's a foam and foil one... Which are worse than rubber domes by all accounts.

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« Reply #7 on: Tue, 02 February 2010, 09:06:14 »
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Nope, if that's a capacitive keyboard, then it's a foam and foil one... Which are worse than rubber domes by all accounts.

...except for rollover capabilities. Some of these are still treasured by musicians. I'd expect typing feel to be similar to Cherry MYs though... or maybe even worse?
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« Reply #8 on: Tue, 02 February 2010, 09:37:06 »
I almost bought this keyboard, but beware!  RNS-auctions has had trouble sending people the proper keyboard, I would know, they did it to me twice.  Also, the keyboards are always really dirty and disgusting.
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« Reply #9 on: Tue, 02 February 2010, 09:45:26 »
Well...as long as they resolve any issues that arise in a timely manner and to full satisfaction of the buyer...
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Offline zwmalone

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« Reply #10 on: Tue, 02 February 2010, 18:47:07 »
Nope.  I got a "great condition, fully functional" chicony with one of the spacebars broken...  never got a response back.   Ended up keeping it (since I couldn't ever get a response), and fixing it.... traded it for a NIB Omnikey :)  also beware, they list real ALPS as "[x color] sliders" and sever non-ALPS switches as ALPS.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #11 on: Wed, 03 February 2010, 02:53:32 »
I found an AT clone keyboard with what Im pretty sure were these switches in a skip... Mushy linear feel... I just chucked it back in.

Offline alpslover

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« Reply #12 on: Wed, 03 February 2010, 11:39:59 »
spongy and mushy like a bad rubber dome.