/tech/ - Technology★

>>948279 (OP)

I have about 4 of these, including the small footprint one, all of which need repairs. It's lame how they used plastic rivets on this shit, and even more lame that they didn't do anything to seal the membrane to evade possible spills. I had one single fucking drop of condensation come off of a cold thermos and it landed right on the god damn corner of my model m, then whammo half the fucking keys stopped working. Granted these things were designed with the intention of being used in a fucking clean room with full-blast AC but that incident was completely ridiculous.

That being said, my leopold fills the void just fine and I use kailh switches because I know how to do basic soldering, so no shitty cherry switches to deal with.

>>948303

If you like Leopold keyboards; you should really try Korean Topre knockoffs. Korea is like a Mecca for these electro-capacitive keyboards, the two best models being the Hansung CHF7 and the Abko K965P. The switches come with silencing rings, but maintain a very bassy sound -- the keyfeel is also superior to Topre, in my opinion.

True beauty **Seriously though, will mechanical keyboards ever become OEM standard again, so they aren't perceived as a luxury/meme item?

>>948324

But mechanical keyboards are a bit of a luxury item. You can find reasonably priced ones, but rubber domes are inherently far far cheaper to produce. And if you think those are bad, be glad they're not membrane keyboards, pic related. Now THAT was atrocious.

>>948335

Chyrosran22.

>>948284

>Model F are superior

Well shit, for almost $400 they better be. My $80 Unicomp is good enough, thank you very much. But if I could spend that sort of crazy money on a keyboard, I'd go for pic related.

>>948337

You should've bought the other model.

>>948279 (OP)

Move aside.

>>948279 (OP)

sneaky reference

>>948307

>Hansung CHF7

isn't that just the Niz Plum keyboard but re-branded for gooks?

>>948313

Actual topre boards that don't have the mx stem other than a few exceptions like the coolermaster one have good default pbt keycaps with the exclusion of the spacebar sometimes being ABS.

>>948473

What important thing was ever created with that keyboard?

>>948279 (OP)

The 90's called! They want their feels back.

>>948842

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_K5_microprocessors/

>most expensive is $167

>walk into PC showroom in 96

>let a guy in a suit sell you a pentium for 3 grand

It's funny the bit I really disagree with is the bit where you call these keyboards "good". I've never known them to be good. I tried a bunch of MX switches on display models in stores and they weren't good. I used to own hardware which had springs in them and they weren't good. I don't think I've ever tried the designs being talked about here, but I also don't really care for niche designs that are too rare to be stockpiled for future tech wars. I'll try the apple ones if I see those cheap enough, but the rest are too rare and Dell rubber domes are really quite pleasant to work with for $5 a go. If they were not made in quantity let some rich fag "collect" them. I want the "Toyota Corolla" of desktop keyboards; because they work well and I can get hold of a whole fleet of them.

>>948842

You could always buy or build yourself a decent PC in the 90's for $1000-$1500, unless you were going for "top of the line" stuff, and then of course you'll pay for it. But an average PC was enough to run most software and games, at least until everything become 3D shit and started requiring fast pentium and GPUs.

Pic was released in 1992 and didn't need much hardware at all to run. Actually it was even programmed on a 286 machine.

Sure the Model M is a reference, but I also like the feel and design of this HP keyboard. Pure 80's stuff, also PS/2 compatible.

>>948983

>>949004

Not sure what you mean. I spent several months with my Amiga 500 plugged into a 19-inch CRT TV via the RF modulator, because I couldn't bring a monitor on the trip. It was fine to use that way, although I had to set Workbench to 60-column mode in order for the text to be legible. Pretty sure the A1200 could also accomodate an RF modulator, and those got sold well into the late 90's, even after Commodore was bankrupt (Escom took over for a while, and you could easily find second-hand Amigas all over the place for cheap back then).

Maybe even Atari computers had something like that, but I never used one. Also, most of the TVs I saw in the 90's were just regular coax and/or RCA jacks (this was in the USA, so no SCART).