[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 153, Issue 58

[Dave Philipsen]

You can buy MX switches for 79 cents qty 1 here:

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/MX1A-11NW/CH160-ND/91134

And in quantities for a single keyboard they go down to 66 cents. And 
for quantities to build around 20 keyboards they go down to 56 cents.

Dave Philipsen


On 8/23/2015 2:44 AM, Barry Nelson wrote:
> It looks like the cherry switches are obtainable for $1.33 a switch in quantities needed for a single keyboard. Less $ if more than that are needed. At the quantities for a single keyboard that works out to $80 for the switches.
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/30Pcs-Cherry-MX-Brown-Switch-Original-Mechanical-Keyboard-Switch-Free-Ship-/271574517333?hash=item3f3b1a4655
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> Also, I saw entire cherry switch keyboards listed for $20. You could buy one of those and scavenge the switches and you would have almost enough for two CoCo 3 keyboards, plus most of the keycaps would be useable as is, that is if you wanted the CoCo 3 key layout, otherwise if you wanted a standard layout and patched your ROM accordingly, all of them would be usable.
>
> On Aug 22, 2015, at 3:15 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 01:35:37 -0500
>> From: "camillus" <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Steve Batson via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Mechanical keyboard upgrades for the CoCo
>> Message-ID: <f38c01c7-cbe3-4dd3-a896-2c0b6c389c0f at getmailbird.com>
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>> Probably very true but how to protect the decal after applied. I've seen keyboards with backed in captions all disappeared or faded.
>>
>> cb
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>> On 8/21/2015 11:36:29 PM, Melanie and John Mark Mobley <johnmarkmelanie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think you can make your own makings on blank key caps by using dry
>> transfer decals.
>>
>> John Mark Mobley
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