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… It's a Tektronix 119-2696-03 (Spanish keyboard layout) and fun to see that it has no @ symbol on any of the keycaps. Of course we don't need that symbol in UTek UNIX! :-) The layout is a close copy(*) of the common Spanish (Spain) layout, which places a few symbols in the tertiary layer and seem ...

Two 2U Enter keys, one on top of another (plus other not as obvious signs)? Sorry, but this reminds me very much of a certain past thread...

Looks to me like the keyboard was indeed made in 1992, but at some point it was serviced and the entire innards (including the keycaps as well) were replaced with whatever available part there was (1394177 is a P/N for the plate, not a keyboard).

Those keycaps seem to be a sort of "Western European" adapter set, with replacements for a select few keys on a limited amount of national layouts (Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, etc.; weirdly, Dutch looks to be supported ("IJ")). Some of the keycaps (ç/¿ and ß/` in particular) make it rather...

Wodan wrote: ↑

25 Oct 2020, 12:50

A bot bidding war?

What dystopian future do you live in?

More like a dystopian present.

Absurdly high, high-ish, high, too high. Damn.

If you really enjoyed the Model M, then get another Model M — all others are a step below it (... except for IBM Model F keyboards).

Excelso wrote: ↑

17 Oct 2020, 23:23

It's the famous spanish "Controlo" key.

Yo controlo el control.
Tú controlas el control.
Él controla el control.
Nosotros no controlamos el control, porque él no lo suelta.

Oh, well...

inmbolmie wrote: ↑

05 Oct 2020, 22:29

It is incredible how small those computers are... you may well have added a dozen inside the M122 and say that you have built a supercomputer cluster inside a keyboard!

Imagine... a Beowulf cluster of M122 keyboards!


(dated joke, but still funny)

Yeah, they were cheap until that nos supply ran out. The thing is, the "NOS supply" ran out a couple times, before Mendehlson put out new batches. Also, for a long time, the Japanese keyboards weren't available, with only Chinese units for sale, until a "fresh" batch showed up (this happened twice)...

30 or 35 USD, depending on the batch, with not that high of a shipping (depending on one's location; in one purchase I even got free shipping).

Redmaus wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2020, 03:06

depletedvespene wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2020, 02:45

hellothere wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2020, 02:21

Pingmaster:

Spoiler:

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$107 US, ATM. Anybody want to guess how high it'll go?

I'd rather not. 107 is already a dumb price for a pingmaster.

Lol I just paid $175 for one

Ouch. You should have asked around first.

hellothere wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2020, 02:21

Pingmaster:

Spoiler:

s-l1600.jpg

$107 US, ATM. Anybody want to guess how high it'll go?

I'd rather not. 107 is already a dumb price for a pingmaster.

Congrats!

Congrats!

OxC0FFEE wrote: ↑

29 Sep 2020, 04:35

Frankly I think I'd prefer a more understated F62 or F77.

This is why my intention is that, when the dyesubs come out, my keyboard will have "F77" keys instead of "Fn" keys.

… In the new Cherry keebs , you'll be forever risking the starting up a http://www.cherry.com/stupid-propaganda/ browser window when you meant to cancel whatever current action or calling a program's built-in help. ... if you've installed their software and use Windows. A certain other company has ...

[...] Yes, but that key's placement is surprisingly idiotic. Even Logitech does it better: I disagree, with the placement like this there's just an additional key available while the whole FN row stays the same. The way Logitech did it shifted the whole FN row to the left. ... but it keeps a separa...

Findecanor wrote: ↑

27 Sep 2020, 19:53

There are only US-ANSI and Korean ANSI in the datasheet linked in the OP.

Indeed, but (AFAIK) Cherry hasn't said "these are the only varieties we'll be producing in this line of keyboards". If they indeed have, that does change things.

gianni wrote: ↑

27 Sep 2020, 18:54

No ISO as always.

Well, that particular unit IS a English (USA) keyboard, which can be expected to be ANSI. How will they handle other national layouts in general remains to be seen.

Redmaus wrote: ↑

26 Sep 2020, 18:23

… and once again we have $400 shipping

That better include a MOUNTAIN of bubble wrap (and perhaps even a complimentary Model M keyboard).

Federal units, then?

(because at this point, only a single federation insists on keepin' them)

JP! wrote: ↑

24 Sep 2020, 01:10

You watch, this seller probably has a shed load of these keypads

Yeah, and good luck now getting to buy them at a proper price.

Looks like it's a different unit.

Jaw, meet the floor.

…… Jokes aside, I find the "Space Cadet" thing to be a bit... foreign... to IBM keyboards. YMMV. I know, it's just a color combination I really like, as said, the original blueprint from the model f manual was just cool for the t-shirts, but couldn't help to try something weird on it. The color com...

I mean... remember that a NOS Unsaver with APL keycaps went for 2000 USD? If the highest bidder was NOT a troll, then he must be mentally ill in another fashion (or so incredibly rich that two grand is spare change for him or her).

M9HM wrote: ↑

23 Sep 2020, 00:24

Hope you guys like it.

Eeeeewww... ANSI.




Jokes aside, I find the "Space Cadet" thing to be a bit... foreign... to IBM keyboards. YMMV.

Findecanor wrote: ↑

22 Sep 2020, 12:27

BTW. Ron Cobb, who had designed the "Semiotic Standard" symbols for Alien (and done a whole lot more work for sci-fi and fantasy cinema) died yesterday, Sep 21 at age 83.

Fnhanced kfyboard? I'm in!

I bet terminal Model M keyboards will be ideal "donor" boards, so that begs the issue of ensuring the necessary recabling and whatnot is considered as an integral (or at least, a close-to-core option) part of the project.