Category: 1990 Alps SM-101
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Spring Forward with the Alps SM-101: Exploring a Rare and Uncommon Buckling Spring Keyboard
Did you know Alps designed, patented, and produced their own variant of a Buckling Spring keyboard? In 1988, 2 patents were filed by Alps Electric Co., Ltd. in Japan, detailing their design and implementation of their own Buckling Spring variant of Key Switches. However, it was not a widely adopted design, and as such there…