deskthority

I got a couple of nice double shot keycaps from old Cherry G80 boards with black legends on white base.

Now I am looking for different color options. I really like the Olivetti design with blue on white but I can't find anything that is MX compatible with German Layout.

The only other sources I know of are:

Skidata Boards
Gabriele 7007L typewriters for the alphas

What else should I be looking for? If you wanna sell me a nice set sent me a PM

7007L is dyesub.

I combined my beige DS modifiers with Cherry white-on-black doubleshots that I luckily found on ebay.de. They are sometimes up for sale on the marketplace here. Excuse the shoe ...

Those white on black double shots are just what I am looking for. I love the alternating theme you choose!

From which Cherry board are they? Ebay is flooded with white caps but no blacks

why is there a shoe on the table

mintberryminuscrunch wrote:why is there a shoe on the table

Ripster...

I was lucky and found a black G81-3000 on ebay some time ago, and the case and keycaps fit nicely on a vintage G80-3000.

If you ask on the marketplace forum, maybe somebody still has a set to sell. I've seen it work before:

http://deskthority.net/marketplace-f11/ ... t4182.html

Yes, reddit/ripster. I hope y'all don't mind. I've been on these boards far too short to know a lot about all this ripster history. To me he's a guy who knows a lot and shares it.

EDIT: I guess you have also seen Ivan's group buy (which still desparately needs more orders):

http://deskthority.net/marketplace-f11/ ... t4553.html

What I want to know is; where did you get those beautiful beige DS modifiers? Did those come stock on your keyboard? Is that the stepped CapsLock with no text, just the hand-bag logo?

I need that set of modifiers! Okay, I'd prefer it with a 1x "+" and 1x zero for the number pad, but the rest are perfect.

Yes, these are just standard German Cherry modifiers that came with the vintage winkeylesse beige/white G80-3000. There's a down arrow on the caps lock key that matches the up arrows on the shift keys.

Keyboards with these come up on ebay.de quite regularly, like this G81 that went for 1 €:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-Tastatur- ... 1c3195bd30

or this G80 with winkeys that became more expensive:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/151019773017?ssP ... 1423.l2649

The modifiers just look a lot lighter in contrast to black keys.

Halvar wrote:Yes, these are just standard German Cherry modifiers that came with the vintage winkeylesse beige/white G80-3000. There's a down arrow on the caps lock key that matches the up arrows on the shift keys.

Keyboards with these come up on ebay.de quite regularly, like this G81 that went for 1 €:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-Tastatur- ... 1c3195bd30

or this G80 with winkeys that became more expensive:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/151019773017?ssP ... 1423.l2649

What makes the difference is that the the first one (sold for 1€) has (very common) 1.5 wide Alt/AltGr and Strg caps, while on the second one (sold for 56.37€) they are 1.25.

That's right, and the first set is even incomplete (F1 and PrtSc missing) and seems shiny, and the second one is a G80, so you get nice PTB mounted MX switches with it as a bonus.

Halvar wrote:Yes, these are just standard German Cherry modifiers that came with the vintage winkeylesse beige/white G80-3000. There's a down arrow on the caps lock key that matches the up arrows on the shift keys.

Keyboards with these come up on ebay.de quite regularly, like this G81 that went for 1 €:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-Tastatur- ... 1c3195bd30

or this G80 with winkeys that became more expensive:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/151019773017?ssP ... 1423.l2649

The modifiers just look a lot lighter in contrast to black keys.

Thanks for the info! One more model to be on the lookout for!