deskthority

...... I'll try to expose them to sunshine with some hydrogen peroxide as soon as the season allows me. BTW: Sunshine is not a necessity. I retrobrighted a set of keycaps over night, the bowl sitting on a radiator - in complete darkness. But starting in the morning and monitoring the progress regul...

dcopellino wrote: ↑

13 Mar 2021, 10:02

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Any hints how to get them white back.

Well - hydrogen peroxide would be my first try - testing with a single one first, of course.

Oh if the caps weren't F&F I'd be all over it... well not really, I don't want to orphan a complete luggable if I can avoid it. Me too. There is actually another seller with only the keyboard, but - cunning as I am :mrgreen: - I chose to post this offer as a reference to avoid pointing to many eyes...

Does anybody know, what kind of switches that Seequa Chameleon keyboard uses: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-Vintage-Seequa-Chameleon-Luggable-Portable-Personal-Computer-PC-DOS-CP-M/193517926349?hash=item2d0e9137cd:g:T8gAAOSwmyle5qqe Keytronic foam and foil I think. The position of the lock lights...

Does anybody know, what kind of switches that Seequa Chameleon keyboard uses:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-Vintage ... Swmyle5qqe

What I can't quite get together is: Expecting $ 2000 for something and at the same time throwing them on top of each other - not giving a f... if keys get bent or broken. Less of a problem, because there is hardly any demand for them anyhow, but still: Three 5251 terminal screens on top of each othe...

Potzblitz!
Somehow I've totally misread your initial post concerning a full QUERTZ set.
Why don't you simply take that one? (Will continue via PM...)

I could offer you these. They're the brightest/unyellowed ones I have. They have icons instead of text mods, though. And somehow I have the impression, that their edges are a bit less rounded than yours. You could have the whole numpad, if you like - to minimize the potential problem of colour or sh...

There were such blank kits in the last run (called "bleached"). But that run is over for now. So you have to "request" a new one and wait or look for an offer on mechmarket etc.
https://drop.com/buy/drop-matt3o-devtty ... keycap-set

I'm looking for one or two single MT3 keycaps. Maybe someone doesn't need them and would like to trade them with other keycaps? (I have a large collection of /dev/tty and most other MT3 sets.) Paypal is also an option, of course. /dev/tty / Row 1 / 1u / blank ("bleached") / in Triumph colour (apart ...

I haven't seen that Asciiquarium before. It's very soothing.
And well done with the speed improvements. Thanks a lot.

That looks lovely, indeed! (And just to be sure - my remark regarding your residence was not meant to be nosy, but was (as far as I thought) a hilarious hint at your Terminator reference, which might be lost, if you haven't seen the last installment of that franchise, of course. :) https://www.youtu...

There can't be too many squirrel photos! Concerning sharpening: Maybe I'm just stupid, but sharpening and noise reduction always cancel each other out, when I use them in Lightroom, so I usually don't touch the standard settings and move on. I probably wouldn't prefer the picture taken through the w...

That would be the obvious choice, of course. I can't understand, why that color scheme wasn't done first.

In case there will be an International Kit - please don't forget the black ISO-Enter with white legends, this time.

In case there will by another Deskthority-Award in the future, my vote will definitely go to inmbolmie! Not only did he develop and build a great piece of kit, he is also a very generous and helpful person. Besides building and offering his converters for the costs of the material, he even sent me o...

Here's one to identify. Season 1 of Alf had several different monitors and keyboards on Willie's PC for some reason, but this one struck me odd because I can't identify it. .... Yes, that keyboard is certainly nothing from IBM. The monitor is a clone as well. It's neither the green 5151, nor the CG...

Das tut mir leid zu hören. Mir war die gelbe Farbe ursprünglich eigentlich viel zu grell, aber mir ist diese Farbkombination mit der Zeit sehr ans Herz gewachsen und ich find auch dass sie in echt zu 95 % so gut aussehen, wie auf den Bildern. (Ganz weiße Tastaturgehäuse wären vielleicht keine gute K...

That board looks great!
But have you mounted all the switches rotated by 180° (stems angled towards the front instead of the back) on purpose? That results in the weirdest keycap profile, I've seen so far.

After trying out the MT3 Godspeed set, I thought I might post a picture with all used MT3 colourways, so far. The alphas on the last one are /dev/tty, though, not Godspeed, because their yellow/brownish colour just didn't work with my "marbled" case. ViBEs-all.jpg Apollo.jpg On this occasion I also ...

Although I can't stand the "noise" anymore , the F XT will always have a special place in my heart. Especially for its last sensible layout, before the world got flooded by the abominable "Extended layout". :evil: A serious problem is the heavy space bar, though. (Which can be improved a lot, but re...

Sorry, if that's a silly question, but I myself had badges that looked similar to that and later I found out, that the protective sticker was still on and underneath waited a shiny mind badge. (The resolution of the picture is very low, but I thought I might be seeing the tiny edge of a sticker in t...

MMcM wrote: ↑

25 Jun 2020, 04:15

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Has APL legends on the front, but they look like decals.

Let's hope so. Since the front legends are hand-drawn, you wouldn't want them directly on the keycaps.

That looks very professional. And I totally agree to use a proper connector like USB-B instead of such flimsy micro, mini or C connectors.

Thank you very much. That "working on the street" really was their "thing", it seems.
That also explains, why I had never heard of Amdahl before. Here in Europe there is certainly a law that forbits that kind of office furniture placement.

I had such an idea in the 80s, when I got my first computer (Amstrad CPC464). Because it had such a high case, I thought about cutting a hole in my desk, but never actually did it. Although my priorities seem to have shifted - going from an flat Apple Aluminium keyboard to a mechanical one in an aga...

Gleiche Tastatur - neue keycaps:
(Unter anderem, weil MT3 Serika kein R5-Profil hat, ist die unterste Reihe etwas "durcheinander", macht aber ergonomischen Sinn.)

... But to be fair the only people that complain about " sexual advertising" are ugly fat feminists who are bitter, and clueless idiot politicians who think we all think like that! … while of course the only people that complain about " crazy the things you cannot do now " are pimple-faced dumb-wit...

Unfortunately I can't help you, but I'm interested in the outcome and hope you will succeed.
I love those old XT keyboards with their stepped keyscaps and this Philips version seems to have the prettiest XT caps, I've seen so far.