deskthority

I've got them sorted now. Will list tonight. Only one complete UK board and it's in the worst possible banana yellow.

Prices I think will be 10 Euros for the worst ones, 15 for decent, 20 for the best ones

That mousepad

This is one of the easiest differences to spot between newly made and vintage switches. Unfortunately this is pretty common on new-stock switches and just varies from batch to batch. The switch is unlikely to malfunction and will likely work just like any other, but it is still an annoying sound if ...

tinnie wrote:TG3 Q6600?

TG3 KBD-BL82A

I forgot I even owned this

I think the LED label on this one would fit a G80-5000? Is this where all the spares went?

I moved the boards today. As for randomizer, no. But I think we best have several tiers/groups at different prices and let people join for them. 9 boards in total.

I haven't even moved them out of the car yet. I'll do that tomorrow and we'll have to think of a fair distribution model. I still think tagging them with numbers and then everyone rolling one will be the best approach.

If you look at the legends (check left shift for example), you can see that they are not Unicomp style. Chances are that the keycaps are sourced elsewhere or at least printed elsewhere.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/IBM-InfoWindow-I ... 43c803a76b

"This screen is to be powered off every day after work. To save energy and increase the lifespan."

Are there any PBT caps for Cherry ML mount, anywhere? Signature Plastics can make them. I have one from their original "sample profile keycaps" thingie. I also think the Tanberg boards are PBT dyesub. http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8/tandberg-tdv-5010-cherry-g84-9021spmde-t165.html Might put...

They probably are pad printed. They made G84 boards with dyesub, pad printing and lasered caps.

Got the boards. Bad news is that over 10 of them were the rubber dome variant, which looks almost exactly like the MX one. I got 9 or 10 Cherry MX ones. Majority is German layout. I saw one or two UK layouts. Some of the boards have very uneven discoloration going on, how odd. But some are also very...

Ordered, will try to pick them up tomorrow. Lets see what we get.

I should clarify. I don't know how many UK or German ones we would be getting. I just know that both layouts are a possibility. I would be able to cherry-pick (harhar) the first few for people who wanted a specific layout, but I don't know if there will be enough of a specific layout. That's why it ...

Going through a bunch of old contacts and sources, got a chance for these: http://i.imgur.com/gzc6GeR.jpg They would be all 102 ISO layout UK or German layout. Varying conditions from "good" to "absolutely disgusting". Luck of the draw would decide these I guess. As far as I know, no PCE versions, a...

Yeah they are such nice cases! Here is a cringe story: Back in 2009 there were about 20+ or so G81-3077SAFs on eBay.de at 15 Euros a pop. No one really appreciated the value of dyesubs back then and the auction was running for several weeks with almost no buyers, despite being posted on geekhack. Th...

Sweet board sixty. That reminds me, I never really posted some good photos of my Phantom on here. Gotta do that sometime... What kind of stabilizers are you using? Cherry I'd guess? Yeah Cherry. I always preferred them for linear switches. I was actually gonna use Costar stabilizers for the Phantom...

Foam and foil: feels as bad as it sounds? Or were there ever good ones? I've surely heard of it, and probably even played with a few, but failed the ID test. Bugger… When they were new they might have been decent for a while. All the Keytonic foam and foils I tried have always been awful. Sandy's l...

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:That shift key needs a white legend

Yeah white probably would be better. I would prefer to replace it entirely with a matching one though. Next best thing probably would be to use black modifiers. I'll see how that looks if I can't find a matching one.

Now that I have the chance, what keyboard(s) have you been using regularly since? I've always wondered about this, since it was assumed you had lost the interest. In the last years I still only ever used the one board I used back then most of the time. It's an ancient Korean custom called "DK Saver...

It's a G81.
They still made winkeyless G81-3000s and G81-1800s until at least a short while ago. Chances are they still do now.
I have one made in 2008. Thin, crappy PBT keycaps.

Someone must get Sixty out of his hobby-hibernation. I know he has a keyboard with old MXWHITEs. I think I remember that the old ones where more like nowadays blues. Big necro bump here. Yes I do have one keyboard with the old MX Whites that i once dubbed "Vintage Type B". They do feel a lot more l...

kbdfr wrote:Meanwhile…

webwit wrote:We must delurk him more by posting more rare vintage Cherry objects.

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I got some of these. I have the bigger brother, too. Trivia: Cherry called this type of G80-1800 case "Prism". They also made similar ones for the 3000 line.

Looks like you have singlehandedly found every obscure French Cherry keyboard in existence.
What's the model number on that last one? I'd guess it's a 9000 series?

You guys are mean. Also yeah, the Blaupunkt ones are very similar in legends. I have a one of the smaller ones with the coffee/cream colored keycaps.

This was made in 1988, it's as vintage as it gets

One thing I'm curious about more than anything.. Where did you get those A-profile GMK RGBs in the 'RGB' folder of your imgur account? Through a third party from Cherry. 198 more of those exist somewhere out there, mostly in Korea. EDIT: Ah yes, the legend returns. I think I still have this board s...

Thanks for the warm welcome(back) guys! I've wondered if there is anywhere I can find a backup, or a collection of all the keyboard photos you've taken? If there is, I would love to be able to see it. Oh yeah that... sadly I forgot to pay for the domain at some point, so most of it is gone. I still ...

I doubt he will ever be back, that would be crazy :? He contacted me and said he got some emails from you guys. He's fine and lurking sometimes, but lost some interest in the hobby. Well, it's not really a loss of interest... My interest has waned a bit because of less time spent on the hobby and th...