No chocs? :o
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)
What are the two switches in the middle?
I think they are logitech’s switches and cherry mx
Yeah I couldn’t find pictures and they do look like the Logitech switches. But according to op it’s apparently alps.
Alps clone*
Not made by alps. Tai Hao apc switches are to alps what Gateron switches are to cherry MX
The XM clones aren’t even Gateron quality IMO. I did end up with three fullsize XM boards when a site was selling them for $5 a piece. They were definitely worth that much.
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)
Thanks!
I love image. I’m glad to see a good number of less common vintage switches made the cut.
Has anyone attempted to draw the Victorian Era corollary to this subculture? Don’t misconstrue, I am a member too, and I enjoyed a chuckle, gazing from over top my own personal click/clacker. But also, I pondered if 150 years ago something similar occurred in perhaps the shoehorn community. Know what I mean?
No I don’t. Could you elaborate?
I’m apparently the archeologist over here with my Model M and its buckling springs.
That’s a membrane keyboard
lol no it’s not, could even take pics to show you
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.
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!
Yeah definitely not discreet, more like obnoxious
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.
I believe discrete is the word you’re looking for there, though discreet is really funny in this context.
Lmao, you are correct. I always forget that those are different words. Thanks.
It’s a survivor the same way the coelacanth or horseshoe crab is - a living fossil.
we’re due for another extinction. never cherry mx again.
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.
