Ya, they aren’t as special as the buckling springs ones, but dome model Ms still are kick ass keyboards and I’m glad to see this one is in a loving home doing what it does best!

I think the later

I think linears are fine for typing, but if you don’t like them for that then that is fine. Swap the switches!

Double F rows are always a good choice

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!

This is a really cool idea. Other posters here have explained why it isn’t a good idea, but I still think it is neat. Maybe there is a niche edge case use for such a thing? If nothing else it is very scifi

Op, please patent it so no other company can use it for the next 20 years

$400AUD!?

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