deskthority

snoopy wrote:No more members for this awesome club?

Sure, but they may have cheated.





SSK is so last season now.

(Although if I chopped an M, I'd probably just go TKL. Then get it working via Bluetooth.)

I know right!

May I join the club? ^_^

Here's my SSK platoon (bodies/parts are hanging out in the closet). They're awaiting my tender loving care. Except for the one at the 45 degree-ish angle. She's done.

So that's where they all are. Elusive buggers.

Wow, that's a ton of SSKs!

Here is the one I recently aquired. Pretty happy with it. 1987

Here's the "NIB" I got around the same time. Just now getting some pics of it and decided to post them here. It's also from 1987. Seems to be a popular year for these suckers.

What's going on over right arrow on the last picture!?

It's in every picture...look again.

Indeed it is. A fly died on your sensor!

Here is a close-up view of my NIB IBM SSK showing the beautiful PBT dye subs with the embedded numeric keypad and cursor keys. This is by far my favorite keyboard (in comparison to my Ducky TKL, Filco MJ2 Ninja TKL, Leopold FC660M, and even my full-size Model M). Typing is sure and precise. My speed and accuracy are better on the SSK than on any other board I have tried. Moreover, despite being a member of GH and Deskthority, I am so satisfied with the keycaps that I feel (almost) no need to modify them!

Can't beat dyesubbed Helvetica. What a beaut!

Yes, indeed. Truly beautiful. BTW, I just posted a brief comparative review on the SSK over on GH for anyone who might be interested.

Every since our last DT party, I own one of those IBM SSKs!
Been using it for a week now. Absolutely love it. Didn't know I was such a sucker for Small Form Factored Keyboards....

Thanx to Ceesa for providing it!

Everyone's a sucker for little keyboards. It just takes us different times to realise it!

Added a bit of color to my SSK

I've tried colored keycaps on my boards and they just look terrible and are distracting to me. If you enjoy it then that's all that matters

I think some blank keycaps might work well though. I sure like the way my Otaku Leopold looks.

We members of DT and/or GH like to put our personal stamp on keyboards. However, I have felt almost no need to modify my IBM SSK (or full-size Model M) in any way. With other keyboards, I usually need to change the keycaps to achieve greater legibility and/or better feel. However, with the IBMs, they already have what I regard as the best keycaps -- dye sub PBT in a crisp font and two-tone color scheme for demarcation of functional islands. This makes my IBMs my least expensive keyboards! Ready to go w/o spending at least 95 USD extra for new keycaps!

It doesn't need much.

I think I need a set of blank keycaps

To me, there is something chilling about a keyboard with blank keycaps. It is like encountering a man without a face. Worse, it is like discovering in your basement a featureless humanoid pod creature from the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers waiting for the final stamp of its identity to be conferred when you fall asleep....

Turn that logic on its head and you'd make a fabulous character in a horror story, RJ.

"Don't look in the basement. It's awful. The… thing, the man, the creature. I don't even want to talk about it. It's… like a keyboard with blank caps."

couldn't resist...



meaning "customs clearance practices completed"

come to papa my dearest SSK!

Oh! Does this leave your 60% Model M looking for a place to go, I wonder?

Muirium wrote:Oh! Does this leave your 60% Model M looking for a place to go, I wonder?

have to think what to do with it actually... I have too many ongoing projects didn't find the time to finish it yet

matt3o wrote:couldn't resist...



meaning "customs clearance practices completed"

come to papa my dearest SSK!

where did you buy your SSK? US ebay?

snoopy wrote:where did you buy your SSK? US ebay?

US friend.

here it is mine:



and here you can find my restoration report!

Nice! Welcome to the club!

From which year is it?

it comes from 1991. Pretty young.