Guess what I found....
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
So I went to this guy who had a 'few' second hand keyboards...
This is what I took home :
I pulled out the first one with a trackball I threw in the box wondering what it was, ooohhh god... A chicony with monterey blues and a trackball?? This could be my new favorite keyboard! I never knew they existed!
Gonna first clean this one since it is very dirty.
I also got a lot of WYSE terminals, IBM model Ms, Dell AT101s, Cherry MX. I guess I see a garage sale coming up soon!
This is what I took home :
I pulled out the first one with a trackball I threw in the box wondering what it was, ooohhh god... A chicony with monterey blues and a trackball?? This could be my new favorite keyboard! I never knew they existed!
Gonna first clean this one since it is very dirty.
I also got a lot of WYSE terminals, IBM model Ms, Dell AT101s, Cherry MX. I guess I see a garage sale coming up soon!
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
Great score, congrats!
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
It's a chicony 5191 with weird white crossed switches. Never had those in my collection.Ascaii wrote:haha, congratz!
What switches are in that chicony in the left box? The one missing the caps on numblock.
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Next one :
Chicony kb-5191 with cherry white/clear????? Some click, some don't... Very strange.
Ruined board though.
Chicony kb-5191 with cherry white/clear????? Some click, some don't... Very strange.
Ruined board though.
- sixty
- Gasbag Guru
- Main keyboard: DKSaver
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX Black
- DT Pro Member: 0060
These are the fake switches from Chicony. I am actually quite fond of them. Sadly they break very fast and usually don't last 6 months. Your non-clicking ones are likely dead due to use.Mrinterface wrote:Next one :
Chicony kb-5191 with cherry white/clear????? Some click, some don't... Very strange.
Ruined board though.
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Next one :
Brandless. Excellent keys. I just love to type on them. I guess I have to chose if I'd want to sell those switches separately because I'd rather clean it and use it myself.
Brandless. Excellent keys. I just love to type on them. I guess I have to chose if I'd want to sell those switches separately because I'd rather clean it and use it myself.
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- DT Pro Member: 0011
They look like Futaba switches. The stem an also be inverse: a cross-shaped hole.Mrinterface wrote:It's a chicony 5191 with weird white crossed switches. Never had those in my collection.
BTW, I saw in the paper this morning that "Futaba" is also the name of the Japanese town that was closest to the nuclear power plant Fukuchima Dai-Ichi.
Fujitsu Peerless.. You either love them or you hate them.Mrinterface wrote:Brandless. Excellent keys. I just love to type on them. I guess I have to chose if I'd want to sell those switches separately because I'd rather clean it and use it myself.
Coiled spring over rubber dome and membrane. Sorry, you can't sell the switches separately.
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- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Next one :
Unitek k-156
Cherry MX blue
Unitek k-156
Cherry MX blue
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
Teh Evil!Findecanor wrote:Fujitsu Peerless.. You love them or hate them.
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Acer 6311. Black alps
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- DT Pro Member: 0011
Look again. It should be Acer's clicky hammer over a membrane. Not bad, though.Mrinterface wrote:Acer 6311. Black alps
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Riva POS keyboard
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Yeps, you are right. They are even marked ACER upon closer examination.Findecanor wrote:Look again. It should be Acer's clicky hammer over a membrane. Not bad, though.Mrinterface wrote:Acer 6311. Black alps
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
It feels massive too!dirge wrote:Love the massive boarder the case has around that unitek.
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
3 WYSE 285 Ansi terminals
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Siemens ergonomic 'split' keyboard.
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Commodore, light blue rubber domes
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
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The Siemens does have an interesting mechanism there. Too bad they dumped the Cherry switches.
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
And 2 model Ms. 5 Dell AT101, 3 Cherry MY boards.
That's it folks.
That's it folks.
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Yeps... Just ordinary rubber domes there.... Pitty.webwit wrote:The Siemens does have an interesting mechanism there. Too bad they dumped the Cherry switches.
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- Main keyboard: Key Tronic KT2001
- DT Pro Member: -
Doesn't look like a POS to me; looks quite niceMrinterface wrote:Riva POS keyboard
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Actually, here is some more detail on those model Ms.
They have a detachable PS/2 cable. Didn't have those yet
What is that raster in the back for?
They have a detachable PS/2 cable. Didn't have those yet
What is that raster in the back for?
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
For the speaker that isn't there.Mrinterface wrote:What is that raster in the back for?
Except when it is there.
- Mrinterface
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: UHK
- Main mouse: G203
- Favorite switch: Monterey blues
- DT Pro Member: 0012
Wow. They really knew how to build great keyboards in the past.
Is that picture taken from a Model M NIB?
Is that picture taken from a Model M NIB?
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
It wasn't new but in pretty good shape. IBM Model M Soft Touch, with greased springs (and a speaker).
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- Location: London, UK
- Main keyboard: Filco TKL Black
- Main mouse: Logitech G700
- DT Pro Member: -
I'm not sure if you know but around here POS means Point Of Sale when referring to keyboards, usually.glossywhite wrote:Doesn't look like a POS to me; looks quite niceMrinterface wrote:Riva POS keyboard