deskthority

Spherical and cylindrical caps should never be on the same board. It's unnatural!

zslane wrote: Spherical and cylindrical caps should never be on the same board. It's unnatural!

Phenix wrote: Nice! Where to get these caps?

The black glossy caps on the main block are from a Smith Corona Coronamatic. Numpad is from an Atari CX85. Backspace, Print, Escape, Control, Tilde, and Backslash are from Pulse. Plus, Enter, Shift, Tab, and Right Bracket are from a Televideo TS 803. The logo caps on F9 and F10 are from an Atari 800 and a Commodore 16.
And zslane, if you can find a spherical 1.25u Shift, and a 2u Numlock, Scroll Lock, Capslock, Alt, and Delete/Period, I'll purge the cyclindricals. (I've got some other caps from the TS 803 terminal lined up for F1-8, and/or will throw whatever strange and interesting things I find on there).
I suspect that might be a bit hard, so for now I'm settling with this sort of... winged look.
More pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/byTVf

Changing keycaps.

My now finished and fully working FSSK, sadly I lost the V keycap current repair of the keyboard.

TX-CP With SKIDATA+/OG

My first Korean Kustom and I don't know if I can ever go back ...

That doesn't look half-bad, Wodan. Though it seems you've spent a fair amount of money on Skidata+ without using very many of the caps.

I'm glad 60% Kustom GBs are few and far between. Could get expensive.

Khers wrote: .. Though it seems you've spent a fair amount of money on Skidata+ without using very many of the caps.

Thanks for the kind words Khers, means a lot coming from you!

But that's not all I've done with my Skidata+ purchase:

You're seeing one Skidata+ Base kit and one Skidata+ Orange Mod kit and THREE OG Skidata kits.
And ... I still have quite a few nice caps from Skidata+ left. Loved that GB and really regret not getting more Orange Mod kits ... so brilliant.

Those orange mods are indeed really awesome

My MX "HHKB" (zelio housings switch housings with MX clear sliders and 45g springs, sipped and stickered, green backlight and red underglow, NerD60 pcb with LeandreN HHKB plate, sanded down 60% black plastic case), finished to day, ready for the first german mechmeetup.

Here I was, thinking I'd get myself a beamer of the motoren werke variety and/or of the light beaming kind before I got my hands on an IBM beamer. As it turned out I was very wrong; thanks to hammelgammler I got this while still having a flat screen TV and driving a Volvo


Bed-hilfe is my favorite. The A-cap is a little funky as it the A is not only double shot, but also embossed. Weird shit.


When time allows, I'll start the restoration, Wodan-style – if I manage to find suitably large quantities of cheap vinegar.

And btw, Wodan; you don't kid around now, do you. Three OG Skidata.

Nice 5251 Khers, it looks pretty clean on the outside. Looking foreward to your restoration thread. Mine is still in parts waiting for me. Once I have some practice from my 5251 I'll be ready for my 5285 "beamfoot":

All hail Beamspring!
Nice one Khers!

Thanks guys!

That beamfoot is stunning. I thought my 5251 was carrying a little extra, but it has nothing on the beamfoot's love handles. You wouldn't happen to have a bigfoot vs beamfoot pic in your inventory, seebart?

Khers wrote: Thanks guys!

That beamfoot is stunning. I thought my 5251 was carrying a little extra, but it has nothing on the beamfoot's love handles. You wouldn't happen to have a bigfoot vs beamfoot pic in your inventory, seebart?

Thanks, no don't have a picture like that but I can shoot one so you get an idea of the shape which is really just an extended 5251 at the front of the case. Here is a shot (not my picture) of a 5251 and 5285 together with the terminals. These pages have a whole bunch of pictures. I'll shoot some pictures this weekend!
http://www.retrocomputing.net/parts/ibm ... sIPL_file/

http://www.retrocomputing.net/parts/ibm/5285/

This is not mine, but international Wheelwriters have some really funky legends (at least this one has)


More at
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alh84001 wrote: This is not mine, but international Wheelwriters have some really funky legends (at least this one has)

Nice, I'd love to get my hands on one of those IBM Wheelwriter badges.
Seems they had variations also:

Well, they were introduced in 1984, when IBM was using square badges, but lasted well into 90s.

And that leftmost column reminds me _slightly_ of Race for the Galaxy. Come to think of it, it would be fun to actually have a RftG themed set

Yeah if I ever get the chance to pick up one of these locally for cheap I won't pass it up. I bet they weigh a ton.

IBM family.

I don't think those pictures made it into this thread yet.

I've barely started my Cherry adventures, so I could only assemble something like this:

Monitor-lit and heavily inspired by a certain Madhias

Ha, amazing and moody shot

Thanks!

It looks like a screen shot from a film. Great job.

alh84001 wrote: This is not mine, but international Wheelwriters have some really funky legends (at least this one has)


More at
http://modernidadyobsolescencia.blogspo ... es-ii.html

I think I have posted this picture here already, but yup some wheelwriters do have these funky legends, and some will be in different color than the normal green sublegends. They will be blueish. Need to take a picture and put it here to show it.

Hmm those keycaps look nice on that SSK.

Real nice and subtle too. I love blue-white-green combination in general, and it doesn't fail to impress. Maybe, just maybe, I would keep all the mods pebble

Raptor Gaming K1 alias Cherry G80-1890LUADE-2

• Mods:
• Cherry MX Clears from old G80-3000
• green Status-LEDs, the standard blue ones were too bright

• Keycaps:
• Cherry DyeSubs from old G81-3000
• EnjoyPBT light gray/beige blanks and CMY-Mod-Pack