Dr.Mercury

Yeah. I love the clicky sound as well but I recently got more and more in the bumpy sound of the brown ones (the sound is not as annoying as the clicky sound for other persons in the same room 😀)

OMG. This looks absolute amazing. I think I have to change my pre-order to the new keycaps ...

Do you have some photos how the new key caps look?

Yeah that's the problem with acrylic. I'm looking for quite some time for a proper transparent case for one of my Atari ST but no luck so far. You can find non-acrylic transparent cases for Amiga and C64 but not for the Atari XE... which is a bit of a shame in my opinion.

You can buy a case at Plexilaser. https://www.plexilaser.de/shop/Acrylgehaeuse-fuer-ATARI-800-130-65-XE-Teilesatz With $70 it's not that expensive but shipping to the US will be around $40.

Indeed the PCB look really cool. Too bad it's hidden after the keyboard is assembled and installed in the case :).

Thanks for bringing a project like this to life. I recently bought my first 8-bit Atari (130 XE) and I must say that the original keyboard feels a bit squishy for my taste (maybe it's because of the age of the machine). I am looking for a mechanical keyboard replacement for quite some time. Also thank you for considering to sell partially or fully built keyboards because I am this kind of a guy that is always happy that only the PCB is broken after a solder/desolder session and not that the whole flat was burnt down to the ground… Do you already know it it will be possible to get one sent to Germany?