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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ThirdLap on Sun, 22 August 2010, 22:12:27
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Got it NIB for $28 shipped. The Texas Industrial Products SL-81-PS/2 (http://www.ruggedkeyboard.com/81SL_illumuniated_keyboard.htm). Regular retail is $449.00.
I'm assuming it will have the same mechanical/rubber mechanism as the one Netwebber picked up in this thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=11304&highlight=popo). I'm especially digging the red backlighting.
Key Switch Material: Industrial Silicone Rubber
Life: Greater than 10 million cycles
Travel: 0.060" (1.5mm)
Actuation Force: 5oz (130g) :eek:
Feedback: Tactile with mechanical snap
The thing was just too darn cool to pass up.
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Bad news man. This dosen't look mechanical. It'll be good for typing at the waterslides though! :)
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Got it NIB for $28 shipped. The Texas Industrial Products SL-81-PS/2 (http://www.ruggedkeyboard.com/81SL_illumuniated_keyboard.htm). Regular retail is $449.00.
I'm assuming it will have the same mechanical/rubber mechanism as the one Netwebber picked up in this thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=11304&highlight=popo). I'm especially digging the red backlighting.
Key Switch Material: Industrial Silicone Rubber
Life: Greater than 10 million cycles
Travel: 0.060" (1.5mm)
Actuation Force: 5oz (130g) :eek:
Feedback: Tactile with mechanical snap
The thing was just too darn cool to pass up.
I think it definitely won't be like netwebber's because this keyboard is basically a sheet of rubber with some kind of switches. They could be mechanical, but it would make more sense to be rubber dome -- usually those types of rubber sheet keyboards are.
And remember, you can get "tactile" responses from a rubber dome.
But we'll see, chances are you may be disappointed.
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Bad news man. This dosen't look mechanical. It'll be good for typing at the waterslides though! :)
Probably not, but this line:
Feedback: Tactile with mechanical snap
gives me a glimmer of hope. ;)
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But we'll see, chances are you may be disappointed.
It's a new-in-box $450 keyboard that's built like a tank and set me back only $28. The only way I'd be disappointed is if it didn't arrive! :wink: