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[IC] GMK TA 90 (GB will start June 24!)
« on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 13:12:30 »
Hey there, many of the yours may remember the GMK Triumph Adler group buy in 2015. As it was the first time GMK made customized color, things were not going so well.
Now GMK can offer preproduction samples and I have an un-yellowed TA keyboard, so I can choose the right color for this set.


Let me know if you're interested! ;D



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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 13:14:07 »
Yeeeeeessss!!!! I’m all in for this!!


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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 13:26:29 »
I am interested as long as all of the compatibility is there.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 13:43:20 »
As above. If this has compatibility I would be very interested.
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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 13:45:02 »
This needs icon mods ;)

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 13:57:05 »
awww that's a shame about the ISO compatibility :(

great set though !!

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 14:03:11 »
Icon modifiers would be awesome!


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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 15:25:51 »
What about sublegends?

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 15:26:49 »
Icon mods would make this a must-have!

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 15:32:14 »
CTRL and PRT SCR being the only all-uppercase legends is surely a mistake, right?

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #10 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 15:48:08 »
CTRL and PRT SCR being the only all-uppercase legends is surely a mistake, right?

That's how it was on the original, at least on ANSI models. German ones do seem to have lowercase Strg and Druck though.

Personally I would prefer normal Ctrl/Control and PrtSc for the sake of consistency.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 15:49:32 »
As Oblotzky said, the CTRL and PRT SCR should be looked at. Don't want another GMK Penumbra situation

Even if that was the original style, it hurts my eyes  :(

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 15:54:35 »
Interested  ^-^

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #13 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 15:59:58 »
CTRL and PRT SCR being the only all-uppercase legends is surely a mistake, right?

That's how it was on the original, at least on ANSI models. German ones do seem to have lowercase Strg and Druck though.

Personally I would prefer normal Ctrl/Control and PrtSc for the sake of consistency.

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I don't know where you found that picture but that's wrong. I guess these caps are from gmk TA.
This is the original ansi TA:
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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #14 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 16:21:32 »
interested but only if you use control legends and not CTRL

i don't like capital legends
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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #15 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 16:40:31 »
CTRL and PRT SCR being the only all-uppercase legends is surely a mistake, right?

That's how it was on the original, at least on ANSI models. German ones do seem to have lowercase Strg and Druck though.

Personally I would prefer normal Ctrl/Control and PrtSc for the sake of consistency.

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I don't know where you found that picture but that's wrong. I guess these caps are from gmk TA.
This is the original ansi TA:
https://deskthority.net/photos-f62/cherry-triumph-adler-g81-1106hau-t16649.html

That picture is OG too, but I guess both versions existed. There is really no reason to stick to CTRL now :))
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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #16 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 16:55:41 »
interested but only if you use control legends and not CTRL

i don't like capital legends

To each his own, but I appreciate emulating the "real deal" item in this case.
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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #17 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 16:59:08 »
What about the "Strg" legend as your original board has?

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #18 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 18:26:13 »
You should consider adding R4 1.5u controls and alts along with the various other R4 1u keys as it is fairly common on the many 65%, 75%, 96-key, and 1800 style layouts to use a mix of 1.25u, 1.5u, or 1u keys. I could imagine it might be awkward mixing R4 and R5 bottom row keys for these cases.

Other than than, I’m definitely in! Have always loved the OG TA colorway, but the original GMK run left a lot to be desired.
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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #19 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 19:10:06 »
I'm a little confused. Are the white keys and darker blue mods there as an example of wrong colors that were run before?

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #20 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 19:20:38 »
Yes. It’d be great to nail that OG TA ‘grey’ alpha colour :thumb:


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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #21 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 21:09:27 »
if you're talking about grey alpha, then YES please

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #22 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 21:28:36 »
I'm a little confused. Are the white keys and darker blue mods there as an example of wrong colors that were run before?
Correct. They were part of the first GMK with custom colors, GMK Triumph Adler. You can Google it. It will lead you to the Massdrop page.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #23 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 21:55:19 »
I am HYPED

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #24 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 22:04:57 »
I am HYPED

Same, love the look of the darker alphas and commitment to the original colorway.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #25 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 22:06:27 »
I'm a bit irked though because I just bought a mint set off r/mm just 2 days ago. I'll just have two sets no biggie 

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #26 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 22:12:51 »
GO GO GO

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #27 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 22:50:46 »
Very interesting !

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #28 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 23:19:20 »
Super interested!

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #29 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 23:25:10 »
Another vote for replacing those, IMHO, ugly upper case legends on Control and Print Screen.


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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #30 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 23:37:17 »
Yeah, lowercase Control/Ctrl and PrtSc (or Print, since Oblo is using it) would be nice.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #31 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 23:39:49 »
Compatibility is good. But unfortunately there are so many kinds of layout in the wild. Catering for all tastes could raise price a lot.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #32 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 23:41:05 »
As above. If this has compatibility I would be very interested.

I am interested as long as all of the compatibility is there.

I will try to make this GB with a decent price, tell me what you need.

awww that's a shame about the ISO compatibility :(

great set though !!

I can make a ISO compatibility Kit.
But as far as I know, only GMK Laser reached 100 MOQ and 2000+ Base kit were sold.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #33 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 23:45:19 »
As Oblotzky said, the CTRL and PRT SCR should be looked at. Don't want another GMK Penumbra situation

Even if that was the original style, it hurts my eyes  :(

interested but only if you use control legends and not CTRL

i don't like capital legends

Another vote for replacing those, IMHO, ugly upper case legends on Control and Print Screen.


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OK, I will use Control and Prt Sc.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #34 on: Mon, 23 April 2018, 23:50:24 »

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OK, I will use Control and Prt Sc.

Awesome! As far as compatibility goes, my layouts are covered in the current kit as shown  :thumb:

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #35 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 00:19:18 »
always adored this colourway, will be in
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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #36 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 00:34:03 »
Very much interested. Would also like to see the Olivetti set in the original color way.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #37 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 00:50:47 »
You should consider adding R4 1.5u controls and alts along with the various other R4 1u keys as it is fairly common on the many 65%, 75%, 96-key, and 1800 style layouts to use a mix of 1.25u, 1.5u, or 1u keys. I could imagine it might be awkward mixing R4 and R5 bottom row keys for these cases.

Other than than, I’m definitely in! Have always loved the OG TA colorway, but the original GMK run left a lot to be desired.

I prefer using R5 bottom row, I will consider using R4 bottom row or adding additional R4 row.
So I need some more feedback! :D

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #38 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 01:44:11 »
Some suggestions:

- Modifier colored R1 1u Tilde (~ `) key
- Change R2 1.5u Delete key to Backspace OR <---- icon key (NOT <[X] key)
- Modifier colored R2 1.5u Pipe (| \) key
- Barred R3 F and J keys
- (optional) F1-F4 and F9-F12 in modifier colors
- (optional) R3 Stepped Control 1.75u key
- (optional but may be added by GMK) alpha-colored 6u centered stem and 6u off-centered stem spacebars
- (optional kit) Spacebar kit (similar to GMK Taro's)

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #39 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 02:07:26 »
interested
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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #40 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 05:10:20 »
How about offering (at least some) grey mods, so you could go for an all blue on grey theme with some blue accent mods? A la Muted or 9009, where you have coloured enter keys and spacebars. That'd make a hell of a set.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #41 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 06:23:41 »
You should consider adding R4 1.5u controls and alts along with the various other R4 1u keys as it is fairly common on the many 65%, 75%, 96-key, and 1800 style layouts to use a mix of 1.25u, 1.5u, or 1u keys. I could imagine it might be awkward mixing R4 and R5 bottom row keys for these cases.

Other than than, I’m definitely in! Have always loved the OG TA colorway, but the original GMK run left a lot to be desired.

I prefer using R5 bottom row, I will consider using R4 bottom row or adding additional R4 row.
So I need some more feedback! :D

R5 is great.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #42 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 07:42:36 »
I like the actual TA colorway more than the GMK version so this is nice to see.  Aside from some general comments about compatibility like others have mentioned such as an R1 1u |\ mod-colored key and 1u Ctrl/Alt keys, I actually think you should go all R5 for the bottom row.  Yeah people will say they they'd rather have R4 but the vast majority of us haven't even tried it so it's not like most of us really know what we prefer, and I doubt it has been common for people to completely bail on SA buys because they use R3 on the bottom instead of R4 (which seems like a bigger difference in feel anyway).

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #43 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 07:58:44 »
+1 for icon mods. +1 for R4 Tsangan mods, I think this will be better for reaching MOQ. Very excited for this!  :thumb: :thumb:

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #44 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 09:12:18 »
R5 is good. Stick to the origins of the set

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #45 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 09:48:13 »
R5 would eliminate 1.25u bottom row keys as GMK does not have a mold for that size

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #46 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 09:55:28 »
I will definitely pick this up if it runs, a big fan of this colorway.

Couple of minor comments:

* The R0/F kit is still pictured with a capitalized PRT SC. It may make sense to either (a) change it to Prt Sc to match the modifiers or (b) if it is faithful to the OG board, keep PRT SC and add 2x 1.5u R5 CTRL keys to this addon kit.  My preference is (b) but neither way is a dealbreaker for me.

* +1 for keeping the R5 bottom row, I would not be opposed to additionally having the R4 keys (but personally would be unlikely to use them).

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #47 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 10:22:12 »
It's bittersweet to see this being run again. We're already arguing over the exact same things that were argued over in the original GB. The choice of colours, captial letters, R5. Such deja vu. Hopefully if this ends up being produced, it won't cause as much heartache.

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Re: [IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #48 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 11:57:41 »
Most sets add ISO support to the base not as a kit. This was recently changed on GMK Olivia for example, but very few sets run without ISO support


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[IC] GMK OG TA
« Reply #49 on: Tue, 24 April 2018, 13:14:03 »
Most sets add ISO support to the base not as a kit. This was recently changed on GMK Olivia for example, but very few sets run without ISO support


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+1, and not only the enter and small left shift, full uk iso support in most of the cases.