Many of you might have seen my set of good looking, chocolate brown alps caps:



Today, as I was researching another find of mine (a Commodore PC10-II Cherry OEM board), I found the machine that the PCB and key caps I found belong to. A New Zealand Telecom Computerphone! No idea what I'm talking about?
Here's a pic!

Source:
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blo ... rphone.htm
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/col ... rphone.htm

No idea how this NOS replacement Keyboard PCB for a New Zealand PC ended up in Germany...but I'm happy to know the history at last and thought I'd share.

beautiful caps!
nice find

Awesome caps

Next step the Petticoat V, eh?

Very sexy!!!

EDIT:
I keep saying I don't care about caps but colored DS are just soooo sweet.

very nice! I remember them...

Love the chocolate brown and red spherical mate, make a great group buy. Maybe 7bit could help after round 4 puts 20 years on him

It wouldn't surprise me if he had nightmares about keycaps at this point

dirge wrote:Love the chocolate brown and red spherical mate, make a great group buy. Maybe 7bit could help after round 4 puts 20 years on him

It wouldn't surprise me if he had nightmares about keycaps at this point

To the contrary:
Currently, I dream of 9 different kinds of Cherry switches...

The other night I dreamed of meeting a korean engineer tasked with building a tunnel in Berlin that also happened to be a keyboard fanatic...he bought the original Cherry molds and machines and had a secret key making lab hidden under the tunnel.

Thats what you get for staying up until 3am fixing up keyboards xD

hopefully this dream comes true

Ascaii wrote:The other night I dreamed of meeting a korean engineer tasked with building a tunnel in Berlin that also happened to be a keyboard fanatic...he bought the original Cherry molds and machines and had a secret key making lab hidden under the tunnel.

Thats what you get for staying up until 3am fixing up keyboards xD

I lol'd! That dream is … interesting. I dreamed about keyboards too, but don't remember any details anymore.

The keycaps are really beautiful though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk

They were also sold in the UK, that might explain it.

yeah, got that info aswell, just didnt feel like bumping up the thread again^^. Thanks

What kind of switches?

This says rubber domes:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum ... riteup.php

its an ALPS hammer over membrane switch I have never seen before. The PCB has the ALPS logo, caps fit modern switches, but it is definitely rubber dome.