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Title: Vintage WYSE PCE Keyboard - Cherry Blacks $50 BIN
Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 11 January 2011, 14:28:40
(http://www.scarry-garcia.com/sept04/wysepcekbcherry.jpg)

Don't know too much about this one (http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-WYSE-PCE-Keyboard-Cherry-Keyswitches-Enhanced-/290521960560?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item43a4755070), other than the build quality is supposedly excellent and it is NOT PC-Compatible. I believe you need to mod it to make it so. It has an "RJ Phone Plug Type Connector".

Edit: here's an old post with more info (http://geekhack.org/archive/index.php/t-5098.html). Sandy tried to mod his to make it PC-Compatible and was not successful.
Title: Vintage WYSE PCE Keyboard - Cherry Blacks $50 BIN
Post by: Pylon on Tue, 11 January 2011, 15:23:58
Someone took something like this and converted it to wireless by wiring it to controller salvaged from a Logitech or something.
http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:8028&
Title: Vintage WYSE PCE Keyboard - Cherry Blacks $50 BIN
Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 11 January 2011, 15:33:57
Sandy's a guy.  Just sayin'.  Be respectful to the keyboard god.

Where is Sandy anyway?  Now that 24 has ended, I wonder if Chloe is ever going to come back.
Title: Vintage WYSE PCE Keyboard - Cherry Blacks $50 BIN
Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 11 January 2011, 15:41:20
Well done.  And not just your Wang, either.
Title: Vintage WYSE PCE Keyboard - Cherry Blacks $50 BIN
Post by: Ascaii on Tue, 11 January 2011, 16:28:50
you should hit sixty up with a pm, he might or might not be interested, i just sold him three WYSE terminaly and im pretty sure he is planning to recreate his pc-compatible wyse mod with them. He might be interested in just the keycaps, since mine had german layout, but give it a shot.
Title: Vintage WYSE PCE Keyboard - Cherry Blacks $50 BIN
Post by: ricercar on Tue, 11 January 2011, 17:24:21
The WYSE key caps are double-shot gold. Love the arrow keys especially.