I love mitsumis dumb switches so much people call me mitsumimax.

Enjoy your cows! Visit indiana’s keyboard meet ups and say high to big Z.

Hell yeah, dude!

If you are on the east coast be sure to go to meet ups and show off for me lol

No m9 here though, the one next to the my is a mitsumi type I actually. I enjoy being tricky :)

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.

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)

Yes, and?

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!

Nine treasures is one of my favorites! Tengar cavalry too! Good post.

$400AUD!?

My goodness that sucks. I’m glad to hear you found something else nice though!

Very nice!

Looks sharp! I love to see a nice keyboard in a loving home. Is it bolt moded or are the rivets still holding up?

Don’t despair! They have oodles of them on ebay and you can even get them made new and in the USA from Unicomp!

Welcome to Lemmy, shark!

If you are a switch hound like me and you want something that feels a cut above the rest then Unicomp new model M or ROG RX whatever the fuck.

Model Ms are so well regarded I don’t need to tell you about them and why they feel good.

ROG RX switches are a new optoelectric thing that just so happens to be extremely smooth, stable, and binding resistant while combining full travel and a long pole style bottom out. The clickies also use a unique click mechanism that is most similar to space invaders and works really well if you aren’t into linears. Also comes with on the fly macro recording which is always a plus.