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Amazing how the NSA finds every excise to suck possible.
Amazing how the NSA finds every excise to suck possible.
If I was advertising I’d have a link to it.
I’m sure this is a piece of junk with shit efficiency
They are right though. Check between the barrel plate and the metal back plate. Model Ms use a trio of membranes to detect key strokes. It is part of why they sound so much deeper, more robust, and less pingy than model Fs. Model Ms are membrane keyboards and that is a good thing.
I’m straight too, but hbomberguy videos are enthralling. I encourage you to watch some, if not the 3 hour behemoths
Thank you! It is nice to be appreciated!
Can you identify them all? I’m not gate keeping, I put some tricky ones in there as a joke for myself and I hope you might enjoy the puzzle. I can confirm any correct answers.
Lmao, you are correct. I always forget that those are different words. Thanks.
Lmao, I wouldn’t want to share a room with someone else with one.
For anyone not in the know, when I said discreet I meant modular switches like MX or alps. Buckling springs all share a common barrel plate and sending assembly. It is why you can’t just have a single loose buckling spring switch really.
MX has a lot of high points, it tends to be binding resistant, relatively dust resistant, reliable, small, and cheap. Not the best switch design of all time, but we can’t all be mitsumi minimechs.
Alps clone*
Not made by alps. Tai Hao apc switches are to alps what Gateron switches are to cherry MX
Close! MX and Tai Hao APC, not Logitech. Logitech doesn’t actually make their own switches, Omron does it for them. You can see an Omron B3GS in row 2, column 2, and an Omron Logitech switch (can’t remember the series name off hand) in last row, 3rd column.
Cherry MX black and Tai Hao APC blue (an alps clone still in production pretty much unchanged since the late 80s as far as I can tell)
Should probably replace the irocks with a choc. Since I made this meme a few months ago irocks have gone out of production (barring a $10,000 order)
Model M is another survivor of the mass extinction but since the switches aren’t discreet it was hard to put it in the image. Great boards!
Clean keycaps with denture tablets, move up to soap and water with a sponge if needed, flitz polish as a last resort (it will wear the caps down, other two are perfectly safe). Caps are doubleshot iirc so no risk of wearing off the legends.
Retrobrite at your own peril. I do not advise. That said, only ABS plastic goes yellow with age, so the same techniques for retrobriting will work on both caps and case.
Cleaning the spring with conventional rust removers is up to you but the springs will rust again so I say to leave the rust on to protect against future rust. Oiling the springs would help though.
I love to see old tech being loved and treasured. Cheers to this and may every old computer have such a loving home.
Looks sharp! I love to see a nice keyboard in a loving home. Is it bolt moded or are the rivets still holding up?
I LOVE the beeper in those keyboards! So happy to see one loved and working with it’s machine. ❤️