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DT is a tough crowd. Though I didn't know you people didn't like backlit that much.
I kind of like the phospor glow IBM boards and of course my own Cherry board:

scottc wrote: @JaccoW, I'm totally up for the ISO keys from the black 1800. I'd love to get my winkey one set up with a proper UK ISO set.

I'll send you a message by then.

SL89 wrote: nothing on IE either, i have a feeling your messing with me

Those bitches...

Sed8op8 wrote:

Heedpantsnow wrote: Checking in for therapy

Same here

Wait... what nigh theme?

Just got a CM Quick Fire Rapid-i today for testing purposes but let's start with some older pictures of my boards. :)

http://i.imgur.com/SMEG25tl.jpg
FC660M with Ivan's BoB round 3 pbt + Purple GMK mods

http://i.imgur.com/qmnCfCrl.jpg
Duck0113 Orion TKL + SkiData/Charred Orange caps. Nubs ...

I also do have one, and only used the caps, and harvested the MX Clears :)

Would like to buy the ANSI charcoal set, by the way. One was sold not long ago here, but i was not sure.
Sherry from Originative had them in his store a few years ago. They were called 'Charred Orange'
http://i.imgur.com ...

Yes it seems that Z and Y are swapped. Didn't notice that myself before you mentioned (didn't start cleaning yet). This is very unfortunate for me.

Let's just say that Skidata is related to my work, so I have some sources that way.

Those logos on the keyboard (which you probably have seen before ...

The caps are definitely ABS, mine are quite shiny from use. Sorry that I never got those pics, but my keyboard is still on the bench (some keys aren't working) and I'm nowhere near it right now!
Well, even PBT can be worn shiny.
You seem to have different keycaps from the one I photographed.

It ...

Keycaps look pad printed to me, scratch on "7" and also clear coating coming off. But who cares, it has the right switches. :p
There is a scratch, but that's not the clear coat coming off. Just some fuzz. I haven't cleaned this board yet. I'm about to send it to someone else. Otherwise I would ...

The Skidata is an awesome board. I'm kind of sorry that I took mine apart for parts but that's how it goes.
Looks like a Netscape logo on the F3 key

Where did you get it? My old source for these on eBay doesn't show them anymore.

I have a whole set of pictures for the Wiki as well. The full-size album can be found on my IMGUR account.

Feel free to add them to the Wiki as I will not have any time to delve into the code for a while.

( All pictures are clickable for high-res )

http://i.imgur.com/GXyrXvHl.jpg

Picture time ...

Your cheapest option is probably a SkiData board . It has a German QWERTZ ISO G80-1800 layout and has a PS/2 connection but it feels great.

Best of all, no import costs and you could probably sell the board at a profit when you take everything apart.
Crazy looking thing. I think the G80 might ...

Your cheapest option is probably a SkiData board. It has a German QWERTZ ISO G80-1800 layout and has a PS/2 connection but it feels great.

Best of all, no import costs and you could probably sell the board at a profit when you take everything apart.

IMP, what happened to this project? How did testing go?

Thanks.

I finally got the stabilizers from WASD. On my Keycool are Costar stabilizers, but the original one was almost 1 cm smaller than the other one. A quick replacement allowed me to use the standard width and pretty much every spacebar. I'll post some pictures tomorrow.

Do you have shots of the pcb? I was wondering if there is room for LED's on this board. More specifically on the INS and DEL keys.

Muirium: The spacebar is indeed 6.25x, but the spacing of the stems is non-standard. There is a very nice review of the FC660M by eyesmiles on GH: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44310

In the review, he shows pics of a number of spacebars, some of which are close to that of the FC660M, but ...

Haha ah well. For SCIENCE!
As far as I can tell it's 6.25 units (118mm wide, 5 mounts, 43mm apart)
(Bigger pic for 7-Bit)

EDIT: Do you think I can just pop in a different stabilizer bar? WASDKeyboards uses the same size spacebar (4.66"or 118mm) and uses the outermost mounts.

7bit wrote:[...]
Please measure the distance of the the innermost stabiliser stems and the center stem of the white space bar with the red ring.


Thanks!

It's 43mm. The black one is 40mm.
Do you think you have an alternative? I am actually going to Berlin next week...

No it's a white Keycool with MX Clears. I believe Leopold is even whiter, this more like an off-white

Got my Noirs!


I love them.The texture is quite nice as well.

The only downside is that the spacebar doesn't it my Keycool.
Though that isn't 7Bit's fault. The holes just don't line up properly.

656! Can't wait!

It's a knife.

7bit wrote:Shipping starts soon. I have a lot of work this week, but over the weekend I can pack and ship during next week.

Sorry for the delay.

Can't wait!

I need to combine these with Lysol's CMYK modifiers!

7bit, could you tell me what the status is of #0656‏? I want to get my hands on some sexy Noir on my white keyboard and shoot some pictures of it. :mrgreen:
The package with the replacements is on the way to me. Until it did not arrive, I will not ship Retro stuff with symbols, Retro stuff without ...

7bit, could you tell me what the status is of #0656‏? I want to get my hands on some sexy Noir on my white keyboard and shoot some pictures of it.

Never thought the blue and grey would look that good. I am a little bit jealous now.

The guy in blue was just trying to get a döner. Mustafa's has a huge waiting line there.

Just came back from a 5 month exchange in Berlin. It's perfectly safe to cycle in Berlin and I found most drivers to be careful around cyclists. The parked cars are actually really usefull, because it means all the cars stay in the left-hand lane and you get the right lane to yourself. :D

But dear ...

I would be interested too.