The Omnikey has a heavy, thick, steel bottom case and a thick to plastic shell as well as a thick metal mounting plate that brings the total weight to an absurd five pounds. This is one category where the Omnikey just annihilates the Focus.
I have done a full restoration (with the exception of Retrobrighting) on this board, and the Focus already had very clean switches, so both boards have the best chance to impress me. My Ultra was 119 keys and also has thin ABS doubleshot keycaps, although these are different from the Focus's caps. Rather, mine has pine white Alps, which are still amazing switches but are slightly older than the ones in the Focus and have a few notable differences which I will get into later. Mine unfortunatly doesn't have blue Alps. These boards are famous for their legendary build quality and ones with blue Alps in them as well as gold Omnikey labels are some of the most expensive and sought-after Alps boards ever made. This is one of the biggest boards in the amazing Omnikey line of keyboards by Northgate Computer Systems. The board I will be comparing it to today is my Northgate Omnikey Ultra. Thin, ABS doubleshots are agreed to be some of the best keycaps to put on Alps switches as they really bring out the natural sound of the switches without altering it too much like some thick, spherical caps or PBT dye-subs can. Keycaps are thin ABS doubleshots with the exception of the colourful video editing keycaps which I have added from an Apple Design Keyboard. These are clicky switches with the venerable Alps click leaf that provides good tactility as well as a wonderful sound, especially when compared to click-jacket based switches like Cherry MX Blue.ġ29 of these switches are housed in a metal mounting plate in a plastic case. While the Keypro could come with genuine white Alps or a variety of clone switches (as is the case for most Focus boards of this generation), mine is lucky enough have bamboo white Alps SKCM switches. Nikolas Reitmann has updated the project titled Automatic Curtain.This is a keyboard from Focus Electronic, a now defunct Taiwanese keyboard company that is most famous for their Alps-based keyboards and the inclusion of many features in boards at an affordable price.Rik Moore wrote a comment on Nano Z30 a Numbers Only Enigma Machine Simulator.
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