Author Topic: Access keyboards (Read 17682 times)

fossala · « **Reply #50 on:** Fri, 06 January 2012, 10:41:52 »

Well I just have a new job so if everyone can pay the shipping by Tuesday I can get them out when I finish.
I will know the price on Saturday (tomorrow)

fossala · « **Reply #51 on:** Fri, 06 January 2012, 12:40:54 »

Quote from: dorkvader;484667

Anyone want to trade their F10 key for an un-doubleshot version?

My girlfriend said you can have hers as she doesn't care about doubleshots.

dorkvader · « **Reply #52 on:** Fri, 06 January 2012, 15:02:11 »

Oh thanks, that'd be great! You have an excellent girlfriend!

fossala · « **Reply #53 on:** Fri, 06 January 2012, 15:05:18 »

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Oh thanks, that'd be great! You have an excellent girlfriend!

Well we have a son and she has put up with me for 6 years so yeah, she must be.

fossala · « **Reply #54 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 05:24:42 »

I have sent pm to everyone with the postage cost. As I said in the emails can you gift or pay the paypal fee as I have had to pay all the fees for the boards payments and have lost money sorting all this out.

bootstrap · « **Reply #55 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 06:20:06 »

I haven't bought or sold much here, but since joining Geekhack a few months back, I got the impression that the (sometimes unstated) convention was for the buyer to be responsible for the PayPal fee (or an additional 3%). That's how it's worked for all my transactions with Geekhackers - as a buyer or seller - regardless of whether this was made explicit. No exceptions - I just checked my PayPal account.

fossala · « **Reply #56 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 06:23:27 »

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I haven't bought or sold much here, but since joining Geekhack a few months back, I got the impression that the (sometimes unstated) convention was for the buyer to be responsible for the PayPal fee (or an additional 3%). That's how it's worked for all my transactions with Geekhackers - as a buyer or seller - regardless of whether this was made explicit. No exceptions - I just checked my PayPal account.

That's what I thought but other people obviously didn't. A bit annoying as I am doing this as a favor and haven't made a single penny (actually because of paypal fees I'm about 3gbp out of pocket).

bootstrap · « **Reply #57 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 08:59:14 »

Quote from: fossala;485292

That's what I thought but other people obviously didn't. A bit annoying as I am doing this as a favor and haven't made a single penny (actually because of paypal fees I'm about 3gbp out of pocket).

C'mon guys, let's do the right thing - it's not too late to make up the difference. Awfully kind of Fossala to do this.

fossala · « **Reply #58 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 09:05:17 »

Well earlier today pyro gave me a "tip" that was more than genrous so now I am not out off pocket. Thanks.

dorkvader · « **Reply #59 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 09:59:08 »

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C'mon guys, let's do the right thing - it's not too late to make up the difference. Awfully kind of Fossala to do this.

I was planning on doing just that. Is there a way to check with paypal how much of your money the seller will receive? I though they had a feature like that, but I didn't see it this time.

Let's hope the British international post is good

fossala · « **Reply #60 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 10:21:17 »

Quote from: dorkvader;485330

I was planning on doing just that. Is there a way to check with paypal how much of your money the seller will receive? I though they had a feature like that, but I didn't see it this time.

Let's hope the British international post is good

I send things fairly often, it normally takes just under 2 weeks.

hoggy · « **Reply #61 on:** Mon, 09 January 2012, 13:12:05 »

Fossala,

I've just got two of these boards from ebay , the one with 100% double shots has a black plug. The one with a mixture is from a later batch and has a purple plug. Does that match with your batch? if so, we could have a way of cherry picking the 100% doubleshot 'boards from the seller...

fossala · « **Reply #62 on:** Mon, 09 January 2012, 13:56:52 »

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Fossala,

I've just got two of these boards from ebay , the one with 100% double shots has a black plug. The one with a mixture is from a later batch and has a purple plug. Does that match with your batch? if so, we could have a way of cherry picking the 100% doubleshot 'boards from the seller...

Yep seems to be.

Hzza · « **Reply #63 on:** Tue, 10 January 2012, 04:07:40 »

Sorry to ruin the theory but mine has a purple plug and is 100% doubleshot.

fossala · « **Reply #64 on:** Tue, 10 January 2012, 14:53:44 »

I am sorry but my girlfriend was supposed to post the boards today as I am busy with work, but she is ill. I have organised my brother to come by tomorrow to drop them down the post office. Sorry about the delay I was just not expecting to start a new job.
They are all packed up and should be in the post by midday tomorrow.

hoggy · « **Reply #65 on:** Tue, 10 January 2012, 15:18:22 »

No worries - thanks for the update, though.

dorkvader · « **Reply #66 on:** Tue, 10 January 2012, 16:28:30 »

That's okay, thanks for the update fossala. I figure, I'm okay to wait on international shipping, a few extra days won't hurt.

Tell your girlfriend to get well soon

Good luck with your job. I'm upping to full-time emplayment soon, which will be fun.

Icarium · « **Reply #67 on:** Tue, 10 January 2012, 17:55:14 »

So if I want to get an Access from ebay what should I watch out for? Which models are good?

dorkvader · « **Reply #68 on:** Tue, 10 January 2012, 19:33:45 »

Here's the ones I'm interested in.

http://www.access-is.com/programmable_pos_keyboard.php

Keep in mind ebay.co.uk is better for this sort of thing.

kbdfr · « **Reply #69 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 00:33:26 »

Quote from: fossala;487457

I am sorry but my girlfriend was supposed to post the boards today as I am busy with work, but she is ill. I have organised my brother to come by tomorrow to drop them down the post office. Sorry about the delay I was just not expecting to start a new job.
They are all packed up and should be in the post by midday tomorrow.

Thanks for the update- and for involving your whole family ;-)

kbdfr · « **Reply #70 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 00:39:43 »

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Here's the ones I'm interested in.

http://www.access-is.com/programmable_pos_keyboard.php

Keep in mind ebay.co.uk is better for this sort of thing.

If you mean something like that:

then:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270777069921

Icarium · « **Reply #71 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 03:46:21 »

What I would really like is an AKC048 to build a split keyboard from it....

dorkvader · « **Reply #72 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 09:32:59 »

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What I would really like is an AKC048 to build a split keyboard from it....

That's what I'm doing with mine. It's only a little longer.

kbdfr: no, I'm just "generally interested" in the ones on that page, though I do think I'd like the matrix ones more.
http://www.access-is.com/programmable_pos_keyboard.php#EPOS_Matrix

Icarium · « **Reply #73 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 10:32:52 »

hm...x-keys also has stuff that could be used to build a split keyboard
does anybody know if it's good?

hoggy · « **Reply #74 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 12:55:32 »

Quote from: kbdfr;487791

If you mean something like that:

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then:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270777069921

Looks nice. I'd bet the function keys on the right side aren't doubleshot, but it's likely that the rest are. If you're thinking of re-programming then it's important to check that there's a suitable template in softprog first.

kbdfr · « **Reply #75 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 13:50:21 »

Quote from: hoggy;488081

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Looks nice. I'd bet the function keys on the right side aren't doubleshot, but it's likely that the rest are. If you're thinking of re-programming then it's important to check that there's a suitable template in softprog first.

I've got one of these and you're perfectly right: the coloured function keys on the right are not doubleshot, but engraved and infilled. All other keys are doubleshot, including those lovely blue arrow keys (but note that on another Access model I have, the blue arrow keys are engraved/infilled instead of doubleshot).

fossala · « **Reply #76 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 13:54:08 »

Sent out today,
Enjoy guys.

hoggy · « **Reply #77 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 14:51:22 »

Yay! Thanks for all this, Fossala.

fossala · « **Reply #78 on:** Wed, 11 January 2012, 14:53:54 »

Quote from: hoggy;488139

Yay! Thanks for all this, Fossala.

Yours was first class.

hoggy · « **Reply #79 on:** Fri, 13 January 2012, 15:02:50 »

Quote from: fossala;488140

Yours was first class.

Got mine today. Thanks again.

fossala · « **Reply #80 on:** Fri, 13 January 2012, 15:40:02 »

Did you find the caps in the front? I got told you bought the whole (including caps) after I had packaged it.

poxeclipse · « **Reply #81 on:** Fri, 13 January 2012, 19:11:01 »

I was watching you guys, in the last few days. I wanted one Access too, but was too late. What do you intend to do with them and how is the typing experience with those keyboards ? All the keyboards I have, I use them at work or at home. Will you use them at work, for instance ?
I like the minis, I have 5 Cherry G84-4100, which I use on a daily basis. I'd like to say how much I appreciate what fossala did, a very nice and friendly job.
He's a really nice guy.
Those Access boards look colorful nice, but how good they are for a normal 9-5 work pace ? The space bar looks short and too far
to the left, for my fingers at least.
tks

dorkvader · « **Reply #82 on:** Fri, 13 January 2012, 23:15:51 »

Quote from: poxeclipse;489945

I was watching you guys, in the last few days. I wanted one Access too, but was too late. What do you intend to do with them and how is the typing experience with those keyboards ? All the keyboards I have, I use them at work or at home. Will you use them at work, for instance ?
I like the minis, I have 5 Cherry G84-4100, which I use on a daily basis. I'd like to say how much I appreciate what fossala did, a very nice and friendly job.
He's a really nice guy.
Those Access boards look colorful nice, but how good they are for a normal 9-5 work pace ? The space bar looks short and too far
to the left, for my fingers at least.
tks

I dunno: I'm pretty accurate with my spacebar hits, so I'm sure I'll be fine with it; as far as layout goes: I fully intend on modding it to a better layout, and I'll figure out a good position fro the spacebar then. as far as in the workplace, I'm not allowed to bring in keyboards, so I can't help there.

I also will probably end up modding it to something other than cherry blacks later.

fossala · « **Reply #83 on:** Sat, 14 January 2012, 00:23:11 »

The space bar is heavy because under it there are 2 switches.

hoggy · « **Reply #84 on:** Sat, 14 January 2012, 00:26:24 »

Poxeclipse - Pretty much ditto dorkvader. I bought these to play with the layout. Luckily for me, my employer lets me bring in my own keyboards - I rotate keyboards at work quite often so I'm sure they'll be used in anger at some point.

I don't tend to retain the double width spaces on these boards anyway. They cover two switches and are just too stiff to feel comfortable.

hoggy · « **Reply #85 on:** Sat, 14 January 2012, 00:29:46 »

Quote from: fossala;489772

Did you find the caps in the front? I got told you bought the whole (including caps) after I had packaged it.

Yes, got those, thanks. Solves a mystery at least. Also saved me having to take them off the board for cleaning - very civilised.

pyro · « **Reply #86 on:** Fri, 20 January 2012, 18:40:12 »

Got mine yesterday, thanks fossala!

But howtf did they treat these keyboards ಠ_ಠ

I also found nails in them.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #87 on:** Fri, 20 January 2012, 19:26:15 »

Jelly you have yours already. You think thats bad, it's nothing in POS board. Trust me. Worst ones I have got was 1, from a hair salon which had tons of hair clipping, and shampoo, lotion, whatever in it; and 2 one from an auto mechanic which was covered in engine grease and etc. Took ages to clean both of them.
Looks like was from a laundrymat or something, all that lint.

fossala · « **Reply #88 on:** Sat, 21 January 2012, 01:30:35 »

Yeah, I didn't clean any of them. Thought I wouldn't deprive you guys of the fun.

hoggy · « **Reply #89 on:** Sat, 21 January 2012, 04:34:34 »

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I also found nails in them.

For once, I hope you mean finger nails...
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I've heard of pos boards that arrived complete with leaves...

pyro · « **Reply #90 on:** Sat, 21 January 2012, 07:37:44 »

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hoggy · « **Reply #91 on:** Sat, 21 January 2012, 07:40:48 »

...eek.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #92 on:** Sat, 21 January 2012, 15:04:18 »

YAY! Mine arrived today. Mine was not nearly as dirty, in fact hardly at all. Not all doubleshots though, oh well. Now lets see how many hours I spend shuffling caps around and dealing with the programming software...
Thanks again fossala.

dorkvader · « **Reply #93 on:** Sat, 21 January 2012, 19:00:46 »

Yeah, I came up with a Dvorak layout already. I'm still deciding on the split one I'll do later.

Mine came in bytheway. One was dirty, the other pretty clean. Thanks for the F10

I notice the non-DS boards have a extra shift key instead of the SPEC-key. I was kinda hoping all the alphanumeric keys would be flat for easy rearranging, but they're not. Oh well, I might know where my cherry doubleshots are going!

I cleaned all my keycaps (the non-DS keypad ones are awful and still cleaning) and noticed diodes under each key. I also took them apart before using ("Don't turn in on, take it apart!") and the PCB says 1999 on the keyswitch area, and the controller says 2001.

I'm pretty excited about those NKRO diodes.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #94 on:** Sat, 21 January 2012, 19:49:53 »

Yes, it is nkro. I have non DS with SPEC-key, which is itself not doubleshot... so sorry to ruin that theory. I am still working on my layout. The 2nd layer macros stuff is giving it fits. Also I can't seem to get the LED to indicate the layer like it says it can. Slowly but surely...
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It looks like a boring old qwerty, because it is for the most part. I will still need it for normal typing for doing searches etc, and need a familiarish layout. Still need to find some better caps for a few keys. Don't like having different profile on same row, drives me nuts so I didn't use a lot of the ones that came with it. I also switched most of the alphas to Wyse, and added some other random caps I had already. I really was expecting all of the caps to be R1 too.

telepete · « **Reply #95 on:** Sun, 22 January 2012, 01:51:15 »

I got mine on Thursday (my birthday, sick timing). It was far dirtier than the one pictured. I didn't take snaps cause looking at made me feel sick. Like a half digested Wookie (but with some staples in him). The board is spotless now ofc. Only my alphabet is doubleshot. Going to put this thing to some use next week. Thanks fossala.

fossala · « **Reply #96 on:** Sun, 22 January 2012, 02:01:31 »

Nice to see they got across the pond safely.
lysol, is it just 1 or 2 keys not double shot? If so which ones and I will check them against the 2 boards I still have here.

dorkvader · « **Reply #97 on:** Sun, 22 January 2012, 11:29:24 »

On my "full doubleshot" one, here are the keys that are not doubleshot:

cancel
F5
F7
F9
F11
Spec-key
blank enter (key at bottom right)
space

On my "non-doubleshot" only the A-Z keys are doubleshot (and F10 thanks fossala!).

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #98 on:** Sun, 22 January 2012, 12:17:19 »

Keys on mine that were engraved / pad print: F5, F8, 6, 9, Cancel, Hot Swap, Spec-key, tab, caps lock, enter and space. Honestly I really don't care though.

fossala · « **Reply #99 on:** Sun, 22 January 2012, 12:46:30 »

Hmmm, something is strange here. I don't know what happend so all I can do is apologize, I should of checked them more thoughtfully. Just checked mine and some of mine aren't doubleshot, enter, caps lock and f5.

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