Order batches of WS x HMX Arowana Blacks & Keygeek Oats to try out on my F1-8X. Then also grabbed a couple packs of Typeplus stabs & one of those flat TX switch pullers from DK. Then I ordered a Ultem plate for my VKR-94 from Hype. Really looking forward to the ultem plate! The VKR-94 sounds super deep with a brass plate & MZ x Keygeek Y3 switches. I’m thinking the ultem plate will take it even deeper though! Might end up being the widest sounding KB I got after that!
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Heavily considering [GB] DIVERSITYA multi-layout keyboard inspired by original Cherry style
It really is a nice deal.
My only issue is that I like the brown ano, but I don’t have many keycap sets that could go with it. Just beige, and even then I might have to source some extension kits.
Silver/grey would be better in keycaps I own compatibility sense… That orange is hot too though.
And then there is the 2100 layout (less caps needed yay!) but I also really like the look of 9009 with the 2u caps up top…
Decisions, decisions. I guess I have till the 10th to decided if I want to pull the trigger.
I keep running into scenarios like this where I really want to grab an F1-8x V2 extra, and if I don’t, this would be an easy GB to jump into. However this GB will be over before the F1-8x V2 extras likely come out. 
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That is a tough one, I’ve been eyeing up the 9009 variant of the Diversity. It is a very cool board for sure, although the F1-8X v2 is kinda a known quantity in that there are plenty of them out there already & we know it’s a very good board. The F1 8X v2s are finally getting to customers though, so I’d keep an eye out on the 2nd hand market. Might get lucky & find someone selling theirs for a reasonable price.
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For sure! I am checking for Divinikey’s extras too. I have just been trying to limit myself to one GB at a time, but I keep getting instances of overlaps where that is hard to do. I guess in the end it is all good.
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Yea we need the community to stop making nice products/group buys, they keep enticing you. How dare they.
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What is this stock grocery image my eyes just witnessed, why is he so happy to be fumbling limes LOL.
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Same, I’ve been trying to slow down now that I got a good bit of my “dream boards”. Although there has been so much cool stuff released in the past year or so I agree it is super hard trying to stay true to just one GB at a time too! 
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Yeah, I jumped in on the Diversity as soon as it went live, as I’ve been wanting a modern battleship and the 21XX is still in the prototyping phase. I went with the MK06 version as it was the most unlike what I’ve already got (I’ve got a Geon 8K, so already have the “wall of keys” for the nav cluster if I want it).
I went with the Nixie colorway as I am a sucker for clear plastic stuff.
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The Nixie colorway is fire, probably what I’ll go with to if I do end up grabbing a 9009 Diversity!
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I didn’t find any info.
I want to buy it. But it seems like my hobby is on pause now.
Has anyone seen it or knows what it is?
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Seems like a JWICK F1?
But the F1 is listed here as being a 78 G spring, while the switch in your listing is listed at 70 G.
The F1 is supposed to resemble the push-feel of a Vint. Black. This all reminds me of the H1, which was a great switch in R1.
This F1 is listed at 70 G, like the one in your diagram.
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I would also like to see what springs you have in the links.
I just found sites where for 2021 “f1” and there was a regular steel spring.
And in my message it is “gilded” color.
So far I am inclined to think that this is a new mold or revision.
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Placed the order today for my Alps/Mx PCBs. The board is completely THT and has no components whatsoever, and it came out to $85 out of pocket for 5. Going to ten would have saved about four bucks per board, after shipping and taxes, but I still have three of my last PCB, so five is probably fine for now, and anyway I might find out I have totally screwed something up. Gambling on my own technical acumen…
JLCPCB has adopted a reasonable but expensive practice of charging 175% tariff in advance (with refunds theoretically possible) and requiring a shipping method that includes customs clearance, which added another $20-ish. Somehow they are still the cheapest. I recommended a tariff code that might get me down to 45% or so, and made sure to write “keyboard” on the silkscreen, LOL. I guess we’ll see.
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DCS-heads! Get your: DCS Row 4 Accent Kits – Signature Plastics (other vendors show on this page too) - I think I’m going to get CMYK or W and Mint (black text). Do you think CMYK, which has black text, would look weird with WOB? Is that breaking the rules? I’m trying to avoid getting CMYK and CMYW…
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IMO CMYK with WoB does look kinda weird, it’s not the worst but if you’re OCD at all I think it’ll bother you. If smaller differences like that don’t bother you then go for it, I wouldn’t say it’s breaking any rules & even if so it’s your keeb to do with as you please. I feel you though, I’d love to get the whole collection but think I’m gonna get the three sets with white text since I have more DCS sets with white or light colored legends than ones with black or dark legends.
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eh you’re probably right it would bother me dangit. And I thought it would be easy with Mint (black text) too, but on Divinikey there is a picture of Mint (white text) on dolch and it looks good. So now it’s both Mint and CMY…W? I’ll think on it
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Instead of gaming at the casino or playing the lottery or online sports betting, my gambling vice is taking flyers on cheap off-brand vintage keyboard auctions. Just won this clone of a Wyse ASCII board for $35 shipped. Could be membrane, could be space invader, could be Cherry MX Black, could be F&F. Might not work at all (though that just becomes hand-wiring or parting-out fodder). Just how banana’d is that 10u spacebar? Who knows? No, really… who knows? It’d be nice to find out.
I have searched the part and model numbers and come up dry with regards to actual manufacturer or switch type, though Boundless in Hauppauge NY is still around. The connector looks like PS/2, but I’m not committing to that. Cleanup, possibly involving retro-bright, which I haven’t done before, and conversion should be an interesting project after my current build wraps up.
EDIT: So, after disassembling (superglue for the plastic clip is drying) this guy ended up being a Costar-OEM’d board from ca1995, so a bit later than I’d assumed. The interesting bit is that the switches are black Alps. Given the date, I assume they’re the “bamboo” type common on Dell AT-101 boards, but in the WYSE 1800ish layout. It’s in pretty good condition, a few rust spots on the switch plate and the grounding/RF plate that takes up the entire bottom of the case. What’s a little less impressive is the keycaps. Typical of Taiwan-made boards of the era, they’re thin ABS in a Cherry-like profile (are they close enough to modern OEM to call them that?), but unlike the Focus boards with vibrant double-shot including colors on the mods, these are printed or lasered and the photograph from the listing is a bit flattering as to contrast. The legends themselves make me feel a lot better about how my own laserin’ experiments have gone; they’re gray and kinda fuzzy. The 10u (9.75u?) space is banana’d a bit and hollow AF, but it works properly, certainly enough that I’m not going to experiment on it. Electrically and structurally, all seems well. The connector is PS/2 and the board basically works fine, just needs the weirdest 10% of stuff remapped.
So, counting this one as another minor win. Definitely worth the price I paid, but no unicorn, and a bit of a project, but a vintage 1800-like has been on my want-list for a while. I’ll have to play around with Hasu’s converter to remap, maybe figuring out how to get the one I have to switch between my usual simple adapter (RCtrl becomes RWin, all else stays as-is) and specialized layouts for this guy and for my rubber dome M122. I may also linearize the black Alps; the scratchiness is real right now, and I’ve heard they’re much nicer that way. I might retrobrite the case, but honestly it’s not that bad, still within the “people might have intended that color” zone, LOL; maybe paint and poly. I will also begin the likely-quixotic quest for a set of WYSE-layout Alps keycaps.
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Stocked up on some more mx2a silent reds and silent blacks before manufacturing gets shifted. I know I love these switches, and I hope I love them after the move too, but a healthy stock on hand will keep me happy if they end up changing at all after the manufacturing move.
Plus, Novelkeys has an INSANE price on these, so it felt silly to NOT stock up.
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Picked through the bargain bin as Drop seems to be closing out a few older SA designs, and I love SA. Only having been in the hobby in earnest for a couple of years, “New to me” can sometimes involve a nice discount on sets that everybody else either already bought or decided they didn’t want.
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