Wonder why they would only take a Korean CC. Wonder if they have had charge back issues in the past and find it hard to fight those when the card issuer is overseas.
Any ways good information. May have to look up stlensbar and see if he can get some things for me.
EDIT: Looks like he is still listing the 55g 87U and he has the price about where I thought it would be. I keep thinking I need to pick one of those up.
Hello everyone! This is my first post here. I found this forum via some posts made to
my keyboard thread on candlepowerforums. I started out with an AEK II that I picked up at a church rummage sale for $2. Then later I got an IBM Model M for work. But, after a while, I got a little tired of the loudness of it and the height of the keys, and it just seemed a bit "heavy" to me--my slight dissatisfaction with it was subtle and built up over months--I still like it a lot, but I've come to the conclusion that it's not the best keyboard for me.
Anyway, I was intrigued by the Topre keyboards. I had been thinking about a HHKB, but I really didn't want to lose the arrow keys and the function keys. I work at Cornell University's particle accelerator--I'm the lead accelerator operator and head of the survey & alignment group--and one of the main survey software apps uses the F2 key RELENTLESSLY! Then I found the Realforce keyboards over at elitekeyboards and I decided to give a 103U a try.
If you read the last several posts in my CPF thread (don't bother unless you really want to) you can see that my initial impression was underwhelming. I was like "what's so special about this?" But I was also very aware that I was coming from a Model M and needed to give myself time to just live with the new board and to adjust to it and to just use it and see how I really liked it, and not just go by what my harebrained intellectual initial reaction was.
And, after an hour or so of using it, I was thinking "Hmmm. Not bad at all. A lot to like here. Very precise. But . . . but very light. I'm not sure, but I'm starting to like it more".
Then, that night after work I noticed I kinda wanted to type on the Topre. I was missing it. The action was intriguing me and was appealing.
Then, after the next day, I was like "OK. This IS something special."
Now, after a week, I'm thinking "OH . . . MY . . . GOD! I love this thing!"
The 103U is now my favorite keyboard. It's amazing.
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OK. Sorry for the preamble. Just a bit of an intro.
OK. So the deal is this. I want to know about the black 87U. In all the pictures, it seems as if it would be a bit difficult to read the black on grey lettering. I really want to try a keyboard without the number pad, as I rarely use it and I bet I would like having the mouse closer to me. But the black 87U's just don't look as nice to me as the whites, IN THE PICTURES that I've seen.
Does the black look better "in real life" as it were?
Finally, that stlensbar ebay listing says that "We just have the white board in stock. No black now." I assume that the white one would look the same as on the leopold site? Also, I assume that another $50 would buy you WHITE english keycaps? Obviously, I can just ask these questions on ebay, but since I'm already asking questions here, just thought I'd throw them in--if it's not too much trouble.
Thanks everyone! From what I've read here so far, I think the membership makeup of this forum is something special. Nice atmosphere here!
