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Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 00:05
by hypkx
Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 00:33
by dorkvader
Muirium wrote: 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
Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 07:48
by hypkx
The seller wrote me that under the keycaps there isn't a single mechanism for every switch.
Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 07:56
by seebart
hypkx wrote: The seller wrote me that under the keycaps there isn't a single mechanism for every switch.
Hmm that does not sound good then.
Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 09:41
by 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.
Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 20:58
by Daniel
shreebles wrote: derzemel wrote:
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.
Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 21:46
by Halvar
Daniel wrote: 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.
Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 23:52
by hypkx
Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 00:00
by hypkx
could be a chicony keyboard, I asked the seller maybe he can provide some more information.
Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 00:54
by Blaise170
I think it might be a Keytronic Enhanced keyboard.
Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 00:54
by Chyros
Looks more like an NTC KB-6151 to me.
Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 20:58
by IvanIvanovich
Need to adapt black Cherry G81 doubleshot set (or just add some color!), there is a
groupbuy for that!
Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 22:10
by Halvar
True, and also be warned about the
Massdrop GMK RGB group buy -- it's ANSI only!
Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 22:12
by HzFaq
There's always
this if you're after a proper RGB set
.
Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 22:32
by 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
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 14:17
by ramnes
Re: Great/Interesting Finds
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 14:29
by Prelim
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 15:07
by Blaise170
Been posted just recently, looks like it was water damaged by the corrosion on the DIN connector.
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 15:25
by andrewjoy
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
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 15:26
by Muirium
Like a rash…
Re: Great/Interesting Finds
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 15:31
by seebart
Oh come on there's always room for big ass enter. Now big ass enter on ISO, that's a rare one.
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 16:23
by 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.
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 16:56
by hypkx
another nixdorf pcb
http://www.ebay.de/itm/261959889494?ssP ... _25wt_1171
have anyone from here snipped it?
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 16:58
by guk
Yup, same one who asked you to remove the link.
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 16:59
by ramnes
Fuck that, I got overbidded on that one.
Please don't put that kind of stuff here.
Who got it?
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 17:00
by guk
The kb was visible in the first picture, guess at least half of the watchers were after the switches.
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 17:03
by Muirium
Sometimes even clueless sellers do it right.
Still, a pulled cap shot would have really goosed that price.
Re: Great/Interesting Finds
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 17:05
by derzemel
What kind of switched does it have? Why was it so desirable?
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 17:05
by ramnes
Is that what you mean Mu?
(pic from seller)
Posted: 15 Jul 2015, 17:08
by 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.