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Boxed Northgate near Seattle for a decent price:

https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/sop/ ... 47128.html

its the back of the keyboard who cares lol

I made a stencil using some backing board, cutting it with an exacto knife until it was small enough to fit. Then i printed out some labels made in Inkscape and cut them to the stencil~

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I had one of these in a similar situation... the power LED would turn on but no input at all was going through. The caps were still measuring alright, so I did some poking around elsewhere and determined that the controller likely failed. I cut my losses, took off all the switches and bought one of ...

I hope someone figures out the HIL protocol eventually (didnt Hasu acquire something with it recently? Hmm..!), these boards are really rad and I'd have even one of the domed variants around if I could use it on something.

I use mine with some tmk firmware to convert it to USB and it works reasonably well. It tends to drop the connection sometimes which, I always figured might be because I don't have a pull-up resistor on my teensy, but I've never looked too deep into the problem.

LCM in Seattle has one of these on display, if you ask nicely they'll turn it on and let you play with some punch cards. The typing experience reminds me of a teletype, what with the whole machine vibrating each time you press a key. The key-feel was similar to a Selectric mostly, if I recall.

Wonder how these feel in comparison to the old trackpoint and Thinkpad boards Unicomp did. Those were stiffer domes as well, but I oddly enjoyed them as an interesting change of pace.

For what it's worth, the yellowing has only been observed so far on keyboards with one piece stems. Unicomp seems to have only done that for a short period of time, anything recent should be unaffected.

$150 but they couldn't be arsed to source a replacement Z cap

Refund received here, waiting to process to CC.

Please take as much time as is necessary for things to return to normal on your end. I'll be waiting on the other side, ready to keep supporting you and this project.

//gainsborough wrote: gold label omnikey: http://www.ebay.com/itm/232333505813?ul_noapp=true

It says blue alps, but there's no picture of them. I'm skeptical!

...PS2? Didnt these only come with a non-detachable AT?

Not on me, I'll grab some pictures tonight.

Edit: Pics time:

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My wimpy Iphone camera isn't enough to accurately photograph, but upon further investigation I've discovered that the sides on many of the alpha block caps are beginning to yellow in spots as well. All ...

My 08 vintage Unicomp has also started yellowing the in last year or so in roughly the same shade. Mine's doing it a bit less uniformly though, currently only affecting (if I'm remembering correctly off the top of my head) the Caps Lock, Spacebar, and Insert keys. Have been meaning to do the acetone ...

I've been able to dye ABS with iDye poly in near boiling water with a mesh strainer. It only takes a few seconds for the pigment to bond, I place the caps in the strainer and submerge in the water for about 4-5 seconds before pulling them back out to cool. Only need to do this a few times to get ...

Follow up to my post from earlier:
Pumpkin Focus!

Lovely paint job on the Omnikey, works great with the SGI caps.

How do you like those tactile space invaders, by the way? There's at least one nos left on eBay but opinions about the grey tactiles are hard to find.

Opinion requested: Am thinking of putting to use some greens I have laying around into a fullsize case, but don't have enough for much more than the alphas. Would it be advisable to fill in the modifiers with oranges or will the difference drive me nuts?

take off the tactile leaf. it will be ...

I need to get some better pictures of the innards - I had been planning to fully document the numpad it came in for the Wiki but that's fallen a bit by the wayside recently.

Opinion requested: Am thinking of putting to use some greens I have laying around into a fullsize case, but don't have enough for much more than the alphas. Would it be advisable to fill in the modifiers with oranges or will the difference drive me nuts?

I found one of these at the recycling center once and swore it had to be some sort of hybrid membrane, they really do feel quite good.

Nice review. Good rubber dome boards are definitely under appreciated.

Agree. If you genuinely like old keyboards you just can't have the stigma that all domed ...

Mine looks like this:

Orange Alps > BKE dome Topre > 45g Topre > Matias QC = 62g Zealio > Brown Alps > MX Brown > Black Alps > MX Clear > Alps Common Mount Low Profile > Cherry ML

(Emphasis mine)

Are you saying that these have an unintentionally tactile feel, or have you actually found the ...

Mine looks like this:

Orange Alps > BKE dome Topre > 45g Topre > Matias QC = 62g Zealio > Brown Alps > MX Brown > Black Alps > MX Clear > Alps Common Mount Low Profile > Cherry ML

Does AT&T BS have any significant weighting difference from IBM membrane BS?

Real lovely, clean design. This would've made an excellent BS successor to the Model M as opposed to the M2.

stepped caps lock key kthx

My problem with linear Cherries is mainly that they are scratchy and badly weighted; blacks are too stiff and reds too light. Vintage MX blacks, as I showed in one of my videos, are noticeably smoother, but they're even stiffer, so they're still not ideal.

It's this. My hands fatigue with blacks ...

'Possibly even worse than MX Black' thank you for this sneak shade attack on MX Blacks

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Leading ... 2147013796

Anyone near L.A.?