2 points

we’re due for another extinction. never cherry mx again.

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8 points

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.

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13 points

No chocs? :o

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7 points

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)

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5 points

I love image. I’m glad to see a good number of less common vintage switches made the cut.

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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.

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2 points

Sorry, didn’t see this reply until now. I don’t know all of them for sure (especially the few that look like really old Cherry like the MY and M9?), but own or have owned a quite a few of these. I parted with a bunch of my collection when I moved states last year, but still have several old boards that have SKCM Alps, vintage Cherry MX, and my clicky space invaders and some not pictured like my SMK Cherry MX mount and a few Model F and Model M.

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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 :)

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35 points

I’m apparently the archeologist over here with my Model M and its buckling springs.

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1 point

That’s a membrane keyboard

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4 points

Yes, and?

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lol no it’s not, could even take pics to show you

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3 points

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.

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16 points

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!

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9 points

Yeah definitely not discreet, more like obnoxious

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6 points

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.

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2 points

It’s a survivor the same way the coelacanth or horseshoe crab is - a living fossil.

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12 points

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?

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No I don’t. Could you elaborate?

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