deskthority

Posted: **10 Mar 2012, 23:21**

Findecanor wrote: Sorry, you can't sell the switches separately.

I see you haven't met my dremel skills yet *flex*

Posted: **11 Mar 2012, 00:10**

Grond wrote:So what does the speaker do? It beeps for error or what?

If I remember correctly, it does nothing.

Posted: **11 Mar 2012, 01:03**

Mrinterface wrote:Next one :

Chicony kb-5191 with cherry white/clear????? Some click, some don't... Very strange.

chicony_5191_b.jpg
Ruined board though.

Worst case, you can use the springs from that board. They are similar in weight to blues/browns/reds. I really like them and have them in use right now.

Posted: **11 Mar 2012, 01:48**

ped wrote:
glossywhite wrote:
Mrinterface wrote:Riva POS keyboard

Riva_pos.jpg
Doesn't look like a POS to me; looks quite nice
I'm not sure if you know but around here POS means Point Of Sale when referring to keyboards, usually.

Yes, I knew... was joking

Posted: **11 Mar 2012, 09:21**

webwit wrote:
Grond wrote:So what does the speaker do? It beeps for error or what?
If I remember correctly, it does nothing.

Ahahah! I think it's kind of a bad pun that IBM put a speaker only in their silent keyboard! And the speaker is silent as well!

However, according to clickykeyboards:

Keyboard has built-in internal speaker (not controllable or accessible by Windows operating system, probably a special feature used for system beeps associated with the original IBM computer that this keyboard was bundled with)

http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cf ... /id/309465

Posted: **11 Mar 2012, 12:19**

Update :

Got a chicony KB-5191 with cherry blues. I guess those are real cherry blues since they are marked cherry.

: chicony_5191_cherry_blue.jpg (186.06 KiB) Viewed 2838 times

Posted: **18 Mar 2012, 07:13**

WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE BUY SO MANY KEYBOARDS

Posted: **18 Mar 2012, 07:27**

To buy them in bulks you gotta go hunting. Recycling plants, computer stores (that offer repairs), trash containers......

Posted: **18 Mar 2012, 21:08**

Grond wrote:So what does the speaker do? It beeps for error or what?

Yep ..
Just in case the beeps from the PC ain't loud enough .....

Posted: **18 Mar 2012, 22:16**

Mrinterface wrote:
Ascaii wrote:haha, congratz!

What switches are in that chicony in the left box? The one missing the caps on numblock.
It's a chicony 5191 with weird white crossed switches. Never had those in my collection.

chicony_5191_plus.jpg

Futabas. 70g.

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title= ... =no#Futaba

Posted: **18 Mar 2012, 22:34**

sixty wrote:To buy them in bulks you gotta go hunting. Recycling plants, computer stores (that offer repairs), trash containers......

Next stop, the city dump!

Posted: **26 Mar 2012, 18:18**

If you've got a board with beige enGB layout which you fancy shifting the caps on I'd take them off your hands, I want to replace the caps on my work board as when people come over to my desk they get highly confused at the qwertz layout... *facepalm*

Or even a whole board, if you're not looking for all *that* much.

deskthority

Guess what I found....