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Offline ed_avis

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Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« on: Sun, 10 March 2013, 14:34:24 »
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330884165118

Keyboard for some early 90s Unix workstation from a lesser-known manufacturer?
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Offline IvanIvanovich

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Re: Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 10 March 2013, 15:17:59 »
First time I see one with PS/2. Always before they have the 4p4c connector for dumb terminal. Board itself will be good quality, made by same oem as Wyse, Reynolds, and many other terminal brands with SP doubleshots.
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Re: Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 10 March 2013, 17:38:25 »
on these super big space bars is there still only just 2 stabs? 1 on each side?
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Re: Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 10 March 2013, 17:42:53 »
Yes. It would have normal 1 switch usually a grey or super black, 1 pair of stabs. It's only 9 units.
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Re: Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 10 March 2013, 20:51:55 »
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Re: Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 11 March 2013, 09:38:32 »
Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 10 March 2013, 17:42:53
Yes. It would have normal 1 switch usually a grey or super black, 1 pair of stabs. It's only 9 units.
super black On the spacebar? I thought superblacks were used for program/winkey/etc on the 5000 and 1600 and 2100
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Offline phetto

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Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 11 March 2013, 09:45:17 »
I have a espirit board, mine has ANSI layout with iso enter. I bought it mainly for harvesting.
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Offline kaiserreich

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Re: Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 11 March 2013, 09:53:23 »
Looks like wyse rebadged
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Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 11 March 2013, 10:09:22 »
You might wanna know that the modifiers aren't doubleshots, only the alphas are. They are a slight different profile then the normal SP profile than the one we use for GBs. More like the OEM profile. I love them.
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Offline IvanIvanovich

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Re: Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 11 March 2013, 11:30:17 »
I encounter superblack on some of the really big spacebar before. I got one recently from one with a 10 units space, also using Cherry thickass caps, so it needed it I guess lol.
Hmn, I didn't think these looked any different than usual DCS. Maybe they used some different sources for other keyboards. I have seen others with few different switch type so it is highly likely they used different oem at different times maybe even with MX ones.
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Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #10 on: Mon, 11 March 2013, 11:51:01 »
Will see if I can take some comparison shots later
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Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 13 March 2013, 05:52:18 »






Here you can se the profile, the left is dcs profile.
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Re: Esprit S3992-M00 - what is this for?
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 31 October 2022, 13:39:18 »
I just found one of these and connected to a pc with an active Ps2 adapter. It feels very nice but the pc doesn't see all the keys. I'll probably scavenge the keycaps instead. Very cool find
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