Amiga 1200 Key caps

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Well, not everyone actually.
We over here in the old world have got ourselfs quite some stock, old and new. but not american ones, obviously.
So good hunting on those.

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Yes, they did. Got myself black and 'original', and spellbound...

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Sure, but they are trying to produce the next batch to fullfill demand. Due to the situation we are all in the production gets delayed over and over again.

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As i got my keycaps with the first batch i am not impacted, but everybody else can look at the projects site for updates, if not received by email.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/a1200housing/new-compatible-keycaps-for-amiga-computers/posts/2933976

Dear Backers,
We have kept you updated on a regular basis, but for the past few months these updates were not much to write home about.

As you have read in previous posts, factories have slowly but steadily been starting up here in Asia and even though the COVID19 pandemic is far from over.

The challenge we and also the factories have, is to plan production slots and obviously a vendor asking for 100,000+ units being produced from 1 type and 2 color codes are the ones being picked first. We want a mere 3,000 units produced and we have 25+ color combinations and layout permutations.

We need to change
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I kindoff 'knew' they can't make them forever so i snapped what i could get at the time. only sold off a few. looks like i have been right all the time, sadly. If you watched the videos from production it seems quite difficult to actually make them at a good quality, even nowadays. So the molds are available, but the production line is not, most of the time...

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Just keep an eye on the keys if you get an offer, as you have an european keyboard right now you cannot apply a u.s. one right away, instead you would need a u.k. version, as the return key is different and you have an additional key inbetween i think. and the mechanism for the caps has to be the same, there were different ones in earlier A500s keyboards (space invader, mitsumi, cherry ...)