The best thing about double chocs: you can just break off that last column for a tasty snack *and* enjoy a better layout!
Programming a Tipro board on-the-fly like a Cherry G80-2100
- Floating.Point
- Location: Australia (East Coast)
- Main keyboard: TBD (currently Apple Alu Wired)
- Main mouse: Wacom intuos 3
- Favorite switch: Purpz
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I'm quite sure I've seen POS keyboards where some of the switches have been covered with some kind of "blanking" keycap, where that key is not in use… I must be getting the search terms wrong, because I can't find any examples. Does anyone know a) what Im talking about and b) where I might get some?
- an_achronism
- Location: Scotland
- Main keyboard: IBM 5150 Personal Computer keyboard (1981)
- Main mouse: Gigabyte GM-M6880X
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You're talking about switch blockers, and the only place I recall seeing them was from Signature Plastics. I don't know where they get them from, though, and they claim not to be the manufacturer themselves.Floating.Point wrote: 06 Oct 2021, 17:45 I'm quite sure I've seen POS keyboards where some of the switches have been covered with some kind of "blanking" keycap, where that key is not in use… I must be getting the search terms wrong, because I can't find any examples. Does anyone know a) what Im talking about and b) where I might get some?
- Floating.Point
- Location: Australia (East Coast)
- Main keyboard: TBD (currently Apple Alu Wired)
- Main mouse: Wacom intuos 3
- Favorite switch: Purpz
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"Switch Blockers!" hahah of course 
Thank you… now to just actually find some, SP are out of stock
Thank you… now to just actually find some, SP are out of stock

- kbdfr
- The Tiproman
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Main keyboard: Tipro MID-QM-128A + two Tipro matrix modules
- Main mouse: Contour Rollermouse Pro
- Favorite switch: Cherry black
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There exists two kinds, one flat (even with the keyboard surface when in place, so that they then actually press the switch) and the other one kind of pyramidal.
I may have a few beige flat ones, but won't be able to check immediately.
I may have a few beige flat ones, but won't be able to check immediately.
- Floating.Point
- Location: Australia (East Coast)
- Main keyboard: TBD (currently Apple Alu Wired)
- Main mouse: Wacom intuos 3
- Favorite switch: Purpz
- DT Pro Member: -
Thanks Tiproman
Those pyramidal ones sound interesting. I would want black though, as that's my keyboard colour. At least there's a second avenue for exploration, so thanks again
