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Topre dude. You'll thank and hate me later.


I actually switched from topre to a BTC 5140. A very nice, snappy and ubiquitous rubber dome keyboard. You can get one for 10 bucks.

It is like a topre for poor people.


Can you give some pointers on tracking these down? I found this WYSE one in a video linked below, but I can only find a couple overpriced ones on ebay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK7oaCQ-SGM


I bought mine at a Swedish online auction site. I suspect eBay is the place, but unless you are not getting an AT converter with it I would not pay more than $20.

If you find an old Packard bell with a 1.25 unit wide escape key it is certainly a BTC board. That is how I found mine. 25sek (about 3 bucks) without an AT converter.

Just look for retro keyboards. The 1.25 unit escape key is the first thing to spot. Then make sure it is the dome-with-slider one and not a foam-and-foil (which are certainly degraded beyond use by now).

Personally I think the future of tactile keyboards is rubber domes and either light-based sensing or EC style (like topre). No friction, yet great tactility instead of the almost-linear switches like cherry MX brown.




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