Unicomp stuff

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webwit
Wild Duck

30 Jan 2011, 03:49

Model M Industrial cases, trackpoints
Model M Industrial cases, trackpoints
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Various trackpoints
Various trackpoints
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Industrial cases
Industrial cases
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RGB keycap sets. The Koreans love these.
RGB keycap sets. The Koreans love these.
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Industrial cases
Industrial cases
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Various trackpoints
Various trackpoints
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For mouse button repair..
For mouse button repair..
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Lots of LED labels.
Lots of LED labels.
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sixty
Gasbag Guru

30 Jan 2011, 13:45

I think by now you should have pretty much a copy of every single Unicomp part? Could almost assemble one entirely from scratch.

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webwit
Wild Duck

30 Jan 2011, 14:05

My latest parts. I still need to send you a couple of those stabilizers. To the right some IBM Space Saver controller ICs.

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

30 Jan 2011, 14:08

Wow! You know, they could probably be used for other boards too as long as you keep the same Matrix.

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lootbag

30 Jan 2011, 18:06

I love the color combination of those Model M RGB keys.
I do a lot of graphic design... I wish there was a CMYK set haha.
webwit, would you ever part with one set of those RGB keys?
Asking never hurts.
:P

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webwit
Wild Duck

30 Jan 2011, 18:19

Sure, send me a PM if you want a set.

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lootbag

30 Jan 2011, 18:21

that could be a problem.
I do not think I have enough posts to send a PM yet haha.

edit: suddenly I can send PMs now... awesome

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webwit
Wild Duck

30 Jan 2011, 18:24

I just turned that restriction off, although I think you just reached the New User threshold in number of posts.

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lootbag

30 Jan 2011, 18:28

I think so... 3 posts only.
PM sent!
Another comment, loving the design of the forum as well!

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webwit
Wild Duck

30 Jan 2011, 18:51

Thanks! Sixty and me worked on it. Still a bit too much gray to my liking.

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lootbag

30 Jan 2011, 21:27

The shades of gray and touch of RGB looks good to me.

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

30 Jan 2011, 21:31

We actually came up with a RGB keycap header too in the beta. It is currently not in rotation though (since we do not have a rotation script :D). Might be up there at some point though.

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Edit: Another plan originally was to also have the header changing to represent the sub-section. For example have a pic of some nice mice or trackballs up there in the "other input devices" category. Problem there is that I lack a nice mouse to take a nice picture of. So all we have for now is that pretty Leopold up there right now and the RGB keys.

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lootbag

30 Jan 2011, 21:39

The RGB combo will always look good.
I have a CST L-TracX with a yellow #1 pool ball on the way I could grab some photos of haha.

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bugfix

30 Jan 2011, 21:40

These keysets will fit a regular 105 Customizer right? If so, could I buy one off you as well?

Pretty please ;-)

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

30 Jan 2011, 21:53

bugfix wrote:These keysets will fit a regular 105 Customizer right? If so, could I buy one off you as well?

Pretty please ;-)
I believe they might not fit a board with windows keys. I am not sure if Unicomp only made their spacebar smaller or also their CTRL/ALT keys in the process of migrating to windows keys... wait for the IBM expert to answer or for me to check when I go home.

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lootbag

30 Jan 2011, 21:54

hahaha I think webwit should remove my post.
pretty soon everyone who has gone through this thread will be asking for one.
although I must say, he is quite generous
:)

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

30 Jan 2011, 21:58

Just wait a few more months till Unicomp finally runs out of business and webwit can buy the entire leftover company. Then we will party hard!

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lootbag

30 Jan 2011, 22:03

what really?
they are going bust?

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bugfix

30 Jan 2011, 22:05

Nooooooo, that musn't happen :(

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

30 Jan 2011, 22:13

Nah, probably not. I am just a pessimist (or realist?) and have been joking around with that since a long while. Unicomp just runs on a questionable marketing scheme, a very outdated website and lacks the support.. some of the emails take literally a month or more to get an answer.

I don't know, just doesn't seem too great. To be honest, I don't know how they can still exist. Maybe they sell many hundreds of thousands of boards to obscure companies in wholesale every year... but I just can't see this being the case.

I hope they will continue to exist, but I won't be surprised if they announce the end of their BS boards or the entire company one day.

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bugfix

30 Jan 2011, 22:17

I think I'll start stockpiling their boards, the BS feeling is second to none imho.

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

30 Jan 2011, 23:27

Just checked on my picture archives. RGB set will fit only real Model M without Windows keys. CTRL and SHIFT will fit, ALT will not.

Unicomp Customizer is as following (keysize):

(1.5)(1.25)(1.25)( SPACE )(1.25)(1.25)(1.25)(1.5)

No idea what they were thinking with that design.. but yeah.

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bugfix

30 Jan 2011, 23:29

Thanks for figuring that out for me.

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webwit
Wild Duck

31 Jan 2011, 16:03

The rgb set won't fit the customizer, but the solution is simple:
Call Unicomp and ask for a customizer RGB set.

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bugfix

31 Jan 2011, 16:05

Going to order from them soon anyway, I'll just ask them to throw a set in the box.

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Minskleip

31 Jan 2011, 19:33

Are these industrial cases the ones you got a while ago?

Buckling springs are soo good to type on, but fullsize boards are really too large. At least get the arrows-etc and numpad over to the left..

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webwit
Wild Duck

31 Jan 2011, 19:42

Well there's also this, but only the tops.

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

31 Jan 2011, 19:49

I wonder how Chuck managed to lose all the bottoms for those tops. Weird coincidence. I bet in a few years if they last that long) he will tell everyone he has only bottoms left.

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Minskleip

31 Jan 2011, 20:08

That's swell, but still a bit large. I wonder how it would be to have a trackball in the middle of the keyboard. I tend to keep my mouse very close to the board when I use my Minitouch and HHKB.

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

31 Jan 2011, 20:12

Personally I find them distracting when typing.. at least when going at my full speed. I think I would prefer a track point under the keyboard or where the cursor keys usually are.

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