Great/Interesting Finds

[hypkx]

IBM SSK:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/IBM-Model-M-SSK- ... 33a5af9924

[dorkvader]

With caps like that: nope. It doesn't look like a Micro Switch board at all. (My Honeywell is Micro Switch branded inside. They were likely a subsidiary or at least close partner of Honeywell's.) Nothing about this board looks like Hall effect.

Look at the date: 1991. There's a chance it's a mech of some sort, but far from guaranteed. Could just be a dome. It's in good shape though. Maybe worth a punt.

Microswitch is just honeywell's switch and (sometimes)keyboard division. Even RD KBs like the one above are often microswitch.

Just do a search for microswitch: from HaaTa's univac to modern day industrial switches the most common application of that brand *by far* are actual microswitches, which usually look like this:

Now in the KB community, largely because of myself, it is well known that microswitch (honeywell) made a LOT of hall effect keyboards back in the day, that said they did use the microswitch brand for other KB and keypads later on.
examples:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/131279867068
http://www.ebay.com/itm/291001997560

So microswitch and honeywell are pretty much interchangeable, since they have been the same company since the 1960's at least

[hypkx]

The seller wrote me that under the keycaps there isn't a single mechanism for every switch.

[seebart]

The seller wrote me that under the keycaps there isn't a single mechanism for every switch.

Hmm that does not sound good then.

[OleVoip]

Just in case someone could find this Siemens-Nixdorf terminal keyboard interesting,
http://www.ebay.de/itm/111710589961
be warned that this is a rubber dome one, as you can tell by the horizontal lines that show underneath the keycaps.

[Daniel]

German new BoW double shots: http://www.ebay.de/itm/181793566387

That keyset looks really nice, but I believe that the bottom row has off centre stems

And/or is pad printed? Like with other special edition doubleshot G81s...

Yes it's a G81, the bottom row is off center and not usable on e.g a Filco etc.

[Halvar]

Yes it's a G81, the bottom row is off center and not usable on e.g a Filco etc.

Needs groupbuy.

I'm using a set like that with Ivan's purple modifiers.

[hypkx]

Looks interesting, maybe someone can identify:
http://kleinanzeigen.ebay.de/anzeigen/s ... 5-228-1401

[hypkx]

could be a chicony keyboard, I asked the seller maybe he can provide some more information.

[Blaise170]

I think it might be a Keytronic Enhanced keyboard.

[Chyros]

Looks more like an NTC KB-6151 to me.

[IvanIvanovich]

Need to adapt black Cherry G81 doubleshot set (or just add some color!), there is a groupbuy for that!

[Halvar]

True, and also be warned about the Massdrop GMK RGB group buy -- it's ANSI only!

[HzFaq]

There's always this if you're after a proper RGB set .

[hypkx]

the unidentifyd keyboard that I postet last is probably keytronic (from the discription that the seller have given me), anyway it is only local pickup.
The seller from the Honeywell keyboard added a picture of the switches in his auktion, rubberdome.

Another keyboard cherry g81, interesting keycaps
http://kleinanzeigen.ebay.de/anzeigen/s ... 0-225-1107

[ramnes]

Monterey blues
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-Chicony-M ... 280383040c

[Prelim]

Monterey blues
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-Chicony-M ... 280383040c

trolling the "rarity" :p

[Blaise170]

Been posted just recently, looks like it was water damaged by the corrosion on the DIN connector.

[andrewjoy]

Monterey blues
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-Chicony-M ... 280383040c

Nice ! Big ass enter not iso tho

has anyone else noticed that big ass enter is back !!!!

http://www.trust.com/en/product/20517-c ... e-keyboard

[Muirium]

Like a rash…

[seebart]

Oh come on there's always room for big ass enter. Now big ass enter on ISO, that's a rare one.

[XMIT]

Big Enter only bothers me a little bit. Tiny Backspace, now that is a problem.

On some older Cherry keyboards I could work around this by getting a 2u cash register key, half weight springs, and just pressing two switches at a time. I mean, that's how stabilizers work on Hall effect keyboards.

[hypkx]

another nixdorf pcb
http://www.ebay.de/itm/261959889494?ssP ... _25wt_1171

have anyone from here snipped it?

[guk]

Yup, same one who asked you to remove the link.

[ramnes]

Fuck that, I got overbidded on that one.

Please don't put that kind of stuff here.

Who got it?

[guk]

The kb was visible in the first picture, guess at least half of the watchers were after the switches.

[Muirium]

Sometimes even clueless sellers do it right.

Still, a pulled cap shot would have really goosed that price.

[derzemel]

What kind of switched does it have? Why was it so desirable?

[ramnes]

Is that what you mean Mu?



(pic from seller)

[Muirium]

This is what I get for browsing on mobile!

Yes, Der, that's a Nixie: the legendary MX switch that Truly Doesn't Suck. They're very nice indeed. I have one. So still a while before I can do a whole keyboard… The going rate for them tells me I never will.