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[OTD] New OTD wiki
zlobin356:
Hi! In this thread i will try to cover all OTD keyboards. All info and stuff will be covered, with OTD lore itself. Two posts in one day.
List of boards to cover:
1)OTD 356MF
2)OTD 356AMF
3)OTD 356ES
4)OTD 356L
5)OTD 356LS
6)OTD 356N MK.1
7)OTD 356C
8)OTD 356CL
9)OTD 356F
10)OTD 356CL DGE
11)OTD 356N MK.2
12)OTD 356A
13)OTD 356W
14)OTD 356mini V1
15)OTD 356mini V2
16)OTD 356pad
17)OTD The Cheat
18)OTD Koala & Brass Koala
19)OTD 356CLS
20)OTD 356.2
21)OTD 456GT
22)OTD 360c
23)OTD MXmini
24)OTD SSS
25)OTD LIMKB
26)OTD Cyclopia
27)OTD 2017
28)Cat Pad
Right now i will start with how OTD started. Biggest part of this community was based on KBDMania, but with sometime conflicts with moderation started to appear, Eungsam and other people started complaining about greedness and tirany of moderations, mainly "Kant" and his friends, because they started to take down GB posts of Eungsam's friends. First OTD keyboard groupbuy, 356-L was started in 2008 on kbdmania, but next keyboard was runned on "ohbang.net", proto of otd.kr, the reason to make this forum was to have profit-less and non-commerical community, at first stages of this forum - 356n MK1 gb started, later ohbang.net was re-organized and transformed to otd.kr . First custom board GB was OTD 356CL, legendary custom board that made basis of keyboard design.
Most of OTD was based mainly at meetups, there were meetups related to group buy boards receiving, building them, bicycle meetups and group trips. This community was pretty tight-knitted, if you were really active member you would receive "writing power" points, some of the boards started to be limited to those kind of people, for example OTD 356.2 which wasn't offered publicly.
Seems like OTD history ended only this year. Overall main projects ended on OTD 360C which was sold back in 2013, one group of people were against Eungsam, as DSPMan explained to me, most of those people were interested in profits and whistleblowned about Eungsam to tax office. OTD boards were produced under leadership of eungsam, in the process - people who participated in gb paid Eungsam upfront, Eungsam used those money to produce boards and vendored them once he got everything made. From point of view of tax office, there were transactions for products producing without taxes paid, so tax office conducted investigation on Eungsam, which leaded to Eungsam falling off from OTD, and in future completely disappearing from this hobby. Website was active up to 2025. When Eungsam left it, rights for website were obtained by his friend, but with time his friend also left hobby and website was left dead. in 2024-2025 website became alive again, but later website was closed and seemed dead. after sometime, i found out that when you try to open website it says "해외접속차단", which means that site access from overseas is restricted, but when you try to open it with VPN, it opens up as empty tistory page, korean blog website. no one knows future of forum, but probably its just lays on someone disk now... :blank:
Thanks to: DSPMan (OTD), Photekq and The Pig with helping on this part of wiki.
OTD members:
Eungsam:
zlobin356:
OTD 356MF (A.K.A 356L S/N 001, Eungsam Tenkeyless) - First prototype of 356L, MF means Metal Frame, The board is fully in raw aluminium and haves brushed finish. The board is predecessor of 356AMF. Haves strange mounting system and FR4(?) green PCB. I See white silkscreen of switch footprints, strange mounting points on pcb, strange stabilizer cutouts, also screwholes (?) on sides of plate. Made in 2007.03.04. Standart F12 Layout.Built with Cherry G80-3491 Blacks and G80-3491 keycaps. The point to make it, was that Eungsam wanted to make Cherry version of Realforce TKL keyboard. Was meant to be first TKL MX keyboard with variable weight springs. The 356 in OTD naming is length of plate on their first keyboard
Material: German aluminium
Plate Material: Stainless Steel (?) Aluminium (?)
PCB: FR4 (?) with Cherry G80-3491 Controller
Connectivity: USB, PS/2
Colors: RAW
Plates: SS (?)
Mount: ?
Quantity: ? (probably 1)
Source: http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/photo/565232 , http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/photo/565863 , http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/photo/566246
Pics by Eungsam [OTD] :thumb:
zlobin356:
OTD 356AMF (A.K.A 356L AMF V.6.0) - Anodized version of 356MF, Haves smooth finish and black anodization. Probably uses sandwich mount. Built with vintage blacks and Cherry G80-3491 keycaps.
Material: German Aluminium
Plate Material: Stainless Steel (?) Aluminium (?)
PCB: FR4 (?) with Cherry G80-3491
Connectivity: USB, PS/2
Plate: SS (?)
Colors: Black
Mount: ?
Quantity: ? (probably one)
Source: http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/photo/566246
Photos by: Eungsam (OTD)
zlobin356:
OTD 356ES - Engineering samples of 356L, In silver or black ano, haves stainless steel (?) plate and polycarbonate one. not sure if PC plate was included in 356L. haves sketchup of southpaw version, but it was probably never finished. haves also black plate with 356-ES engraving. only 5 made. Top Mount. probably was built to check how it works with finished pcb and plate
Material: German Aluminium
Mount: Top
PCB: FR4 (?) white with Cherry G80-3491 controller
Quantity: 5
Colors: Silver, Black
Connectivity: USB, PS/2
Plates: PC, SS
Source: https://www.kbdarchive.org/otd_archive/album_post.php?post_id=2520 , http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/index.php?mid=photo&search_target=nick_name&search_keyword=%EC%97%A0%EC%82%BC%EC%95%84%EB%B9%A0&document_srl=571081 , http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/photo/568208
Photos by: Eungsam (OTD)
zlobin356:
OTD 356L - First GB board. Was run in 2008 after DK saver, Uses top mount, made out of german aluminium, L means optimized for linear switches, only black color, one lost during shipping, 60 units, run through KBDmania, Uses FR4 (?) white pcb adapted to work with Cherry G80-3491 controller, made by KlKlKl from DK. Case haves special cutout for controller, PCB Supports LED. In GB you will receive: Case, PCB, Wrist Rest, Switch Stickers. Also there was brushed version, made after 23'rd unit didnt pass QC (due to rust).
Material: German Aluminium
Mount: Top
PCB: FR4 white with Cherry G80-3491 controller by KlKlKl
Quantity: 61 (1 LOST)
Colors: Black, Silver
Connectivity: USB, PS/2
Plates: SS, PC
Source: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=99876.0, http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/photo/565232 , http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/photo/572194
Photos by: Eungsam (OTD), Notflipperdan420
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