A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
Modern stock keyboards don't use a winkeyless layout anymore. You may look through these vintage ones: https://www.ebay.com/dsc/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=1&_nkw=vintage+mechanical+keyboard&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1311.R8.TR12.TRC2.A0.H1.TRS0&_osacat=0&_odkw=vintage+keyboard
The second option are group buys at https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=70.0 for a case to implant a modern one or complete mks with winkeyless option.
At the moment my favorite one would be: https://shop.norbauer.com/products/the-norbaforce-cnc-aluminum-housing-for-realforce-keyboards (Winkeyless with Blockers) and transplant a Realforce 86u: https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%9D%B1%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC-REALFORCE-%E9%9D%99%E9%9B%BB%E5%AE%B9%E9%87%8F%E7%84%A1%E6%8E%A5%E7%82%B9-86%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC-SE0500/dp/B001EQ7DTA
A bit of modding and "a lot of" money needed.
Cheers