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Offline samwisekoi

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GH60 Hardware in California
« on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 16:26:31 »
Greetings from rainy California!

I've been away from GH for a while, but last fall I agreed to do some bulk transshipment of the GH60 components formerly in Texas.  Those components -- many large boxes of those components -- arrived at my office late last week.

My plan is to do an unboxing and an immediate physical inventory, and to publish the results of that inventory here.  Then I understand the plan is for me to split the goods into a few smaller bulk shipments and send them along for further distribution down the pyramid.

Now, I have been waiting as long as anyone else for this stuff, and I assume I am about to be assaulted by special requests and demands for information.

I am going to let all of the special requests pile up here until I get a good inventory done and published.

I've shipped two large group buys from here, and know what I am doing.  And one of the most important learnings from the past is that careful counting counts.  So that is first.  I will likely post some photos here and/or on Instagram as I go through that process.

Then, I will plan and publish my next steps.

FYI, my company's lobby is now full of boxes of GH60 material.  This will keep me motivated to get it the heck out of here ASAP.

Thanks and best regards to all,

 - Ron | samwisekoi

p.s.  Mods: Please move this thread to the correct location if I have put it in the wrong place.
« Last Edit: Wed, 06 January 2016, 17:17:28 by samwisekoi »
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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 16:26:45 »
Reserved.

Box 1 of 10:
Keyboard plates:
34 Pure
24 True HHKB
57 ANSI 1.5x
22 1.5 Pure "XTRA"*
Lots of ants.

* I don't know what "XTRA" means.
« Last Edit: Wed, 06 January 2016, 17:37:35 by samwisekoi »
I like keyboards and case modding.  Everything about a computer should be silent -- except the KEYBOARD!

'85 IBM F-122/Soarer Keyboard |  Leopold FC200 TKL (Browns) + GH36 Keypad (Browns/Greens) | GH-122 (Whites/Greens) with Nuclear Data Green keycaps in a Unicomp case

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 16:29:19 »
« Last Edit: Wed, 06 January 2016, 16:35:33 by Latin00032 »

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 16:30:29 »
Very awesome of you samwise, glad to see you around!

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 16:34:55 »
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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 16:34:58 »
Yay, and great to see you Samwise!
I'm back.

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 16:40:06 »
Glad to hear things moving a long!
I'm sure everyone is thankful for your work :)

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 16:40:33 »
Thanks Ron.  I know everyone is anxious and the steps you're planning will help alleviate that anxiety tremendously.

I know it's also a huge project to undertake with a fair amount of work, so I have to say I am very grateful that you're taking this on.

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 18:15:09 »
Woot woot!

Awesome awesome.

Happy happy.

Yay!

Oh, and massive thanks to Matt3o, Samwise, bunny and everyone else.

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 18:23:08 »
Uh.. Ants?

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 18:30:17 »
Uh.. Ants?

Now this imgur comment under every 60% keyboard makes a perfect sense :O


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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #12 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 18:33:00 »
Uh.. Ants?

Now this imgur comment under every 60% keyboard makes a perfect sense :O

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Yup.
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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #13 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 21:21:10 »
progress!!

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #14 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 21:35:24 »
All I ask is dependable people be used  going forward as it would be a shame to stop the momentum and have the buy stagnate again.

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #15 on: Wed, 06 January 2016, 23:34:37 »
Great to see the progress. Thank you once again for taking this on, Ron. If there is one overly daunting project on geekhack it's this one. Much appreciated.  :thumb:

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #16 on: Thu, 07 January 2016, 07:12:56 »
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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #17 on: Thu, 07 January 2016, 07:14:48 »
Holy hell. thanks ron.
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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #18 on: Thu, 07 January 2016, 11:12:32 »
nice to see this GB finally  moving towards completion  :thumb:

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #19 on: Thu, 07 January 2016, 13:10:53 »
Thanks Ron.  You are a champ...  :)

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #20 on: Thu, 07 January 2016, 13:24:54 »
Much appreciated, samwisekoi. You're incredible =)

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #21 on: Thu, 07 January 2016, 14:08:08 »
Samwisekoi -- as always, you are an inspiration.  :thumb:

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #22 on: Fri, 08 January 2016, 13:47:16 »
He's back!!!! 
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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #23 on: Fri, 08 January 2016, 22:35:14 »
You rock!

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #24 on: Sun, 10 January 2016, 16:09:16 »
Good progress, thank you for picking up this GB.

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #25 on: Sun, 17 January 2016, 13:40:44 »
Any update of the next box? How many more ants?
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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #26 on: Wed, 20 January 2016, 01:55:17 »
Amazing! GH60 now with more ants!

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #27 on: Wed, 27 January 2016, 10:42:21 »
Any chance we can get an update?

I'm stoked things are finally moving, but slightly worried because it's gone dark again.

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #28 on: Sun, 31 January 2016, 21:34:05 »
you can actually see the ants in the picture...

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #29 on: Mon, 01 February 2016, 16:49:28 »
Any updates? Been a month or so with nadda a word?

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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #30 on: Mon, 01 February 2016, 19:20:44 »
Quoting from the GH group buy thread:
I haven't heard from samwisekoi yet. I feel it's my fault this time, I didn't have much time lately. I'll drop him an email later.

just to be clear for the new comers, neither samwisekoi, bunnylake or I are responsible for this situation, we are just trying to rescue a group buy that was thought long dead.


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Re: GH60 Hardware in California
« Reply #31 on: Fri, 04 March 2016, 11:53:09 »
I'm posting updates over in the GH60 master thread now.

 - Ron | samwisekoi
I like keyboards and case modding.  Everything about a computer should be silent -- except the KEYBOARD!

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