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Sale fell through so it's back on the market. Now the actual owner created an account so (welcome him and) take a stroll through his post at viewtopic.php?f=55&t=26954.

Thanks and cheers!
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Hey guys, it's the rightful owner, I was trying to sell it for him. I'll link my post to this one. Thanks for the concern =D

I think it's a matter of preference.
I'm switching every day from Spanish to English and back, and it causes a lot of typos and errors.
I do find the English layout to be much more comfortable to code in, and to use shortcuts for tools. As always, YMMV

Sold, pending payment. It will be a few weeks, though.

Sell pending to a local.

bumpity bump

Would taking PayPal or lowering the price help this move?

Sorry for the cripto requirements; my country would not allow for anything else. If this is not sold in a couple of months I could have another option but nothing until then.

Can't sell parts of it, I risk not selling the rest :shrug
Did not find the rest of the system either, sorry.

Hello!

Being that I'm more of a lurker and not an active member of this community I know this would be kind of stretching my luck, but here we go.
A good friend of mine found this in an unused old office and messaged me to ask what he found. After discussing his good luck, I offered to sell it for ...

Ok, crazy bomb of a thought but I'll just leave it here: group buy... for the whole machinery/molding. The most stupid kickstarter campaign ever.

I'm really curious, since we have someone putting in the work to recreate the 4704 model f keyboards. What would stop someone from remaking the SKCM blue alps switch, or even Make something like one of the old northgate keyboards (with blue alps switches)?


it's almost 2020, Why has no one done ...

That right shift plus \ combo looks like BTC to me. So slider over dome or foam and foil. Not 100% sure though.

Great to know, thanks!

In maybe 10 vintage kbs I managed to gather this far this is the first time I encounter this phenomena of different textures in the plastics. There's always some learning after this learning!

No damage at all.

I understand your point, you might be right. I hesitate because I have had PBT caps before and have not felt like this. Maybe these are just too clean? XD

See ya

I just got a nice old Chicony 9600 with thin japanese keycaps. White ALPS. And they are in a good clean state so it's as nice as it can be :D
But I'm afraid the keycaps feel kinda chalky, as in touching chalk in texture. The case has yellowed a little bit but not the keycaps.

I'm starting to think ...

I think you need to see this: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/ch1/

I had the money and was coming to terms to buy it for weeks. And you got it the day I decided to buy it. You are SO lucky :lol:


At the end the life takes revenge on my luck, like the silver squared model M at 1000 ARS that I lost the last week. :cry:


I'd say you still got a great deal. M's ...

You got lucky! At least yours wasn't like this one I got a while back:

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On yours, You could just put a light coat of rust preventing oil (like something lanolin based, though beware, your beamspring may then smell like a sheep) and wipe off the excess.


How rare is find ...

That it never going to happen.

My thoughts exactly. And I asked not to bee taken too seriously after all :lol:


Production keycap prices are in cents and you want increase that price few times. And what about environmental aspect of this. Most keyboard users would be throwing away a lot of ...

TLDR: down with base kits that only cater to U.S.A. users. Make the base set inclusive to most languages.

As an enthusiast that has never bought a set (so my opinion should not be taken too seriously) I think that as consumers we are entitled to ask the few companies that make keycaps to start ...

Then, divide and conquer.

The best way to solve a complex problem is splitting it down into simpler problems and solve them one at a time.

I'd say: get to the hardest part first. You need to veto or dismiss the whole project as impossible to solve as soon as possible. Succeding in that, you know ...

Of course a single bouncing will mess everything up. But it is unlikely you'll need to demo the unit working with a full page of text. You can type a short 20 characters message in that many seconds with a crude but functional debouncing. For instance, once you read a character, shut down detection ...

(...)I'm not making a PC keyboard so is fairly easier, but I will need some more information in the future with my personal projects.


Spanish at the end.

That's a mixed blessing.

On one hand, if you are making an enigma machine for a school project, you can very well get off with a ridiculous ...

Over here at least, every major city has a place that sells and repairs tv remotes, maybe they can help you. If you look for a place like that (or one that repairs TVs for example) you may have it repaired for a few bucks.

Rule of thumb: the older the technician is, the better.

And, if everything ...

Try with desoldering braid cable.

Proba con "malla desoldadora".

Handwire.

A PCB that size would be quite hard to acquire, let alone print!
Also: with that many switches, bear in mind the chip you are going to use, you need a lot of pins there.
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esp: Cablealo a mano!
Una PCB de ese tamaño te va a salir un ojo de la cara, y va a ser dificilísima de ...

I don’t think “pin gender” is a thing. Not when it comes to pin letters / ports. I have made keyboards with Soarer’s Controller before with success, running strobes and senses (his preferred terminology for rows vs. columns) without paying ports any attention.(...)

It shouldn't be a thing, but ...

I'm a Sys Admin and I used the pause/break key VERY sparingly in my career.

But those times where quite important. Finding out my keyboard does not have them right at those times is a sure ticket for the dumpster.

Granted: I belong in a super slim sliver of demographics, but just FYI. And "at work ...

Nice!
Hey, I foresee a quite cheap way to get them done!
You know what machine, readily available commercially, could make such metal stems by simply copying 'em? Easily too!

I'll give you a second to try to figure it out...

A key copying machine. And if brass would be good enough, buying blank ...