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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: SizzlingMonkey on Mon, 05 September 2011, 11:45:17
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Hey guys, as much as I love trawling through the forum I just recently started encouraging my own little craze for mechanical keyboards, although I hate to admit that I'm quite a beginner in the ways of the peripheral. Anyway, I first started with an original Filco Cherry MX Blue, then I moved up to a DasKeyboard Professional with MX Browns.
I recently starting making visits to the local tip, I usually browse through all the junked electronics to find anything that's still of use but I came across a box of discarded keyboards from one of the government fisheries in my city. I quite ecstatically purchased the entire box (Of about 12 keyboards) for twenty bucks.
Upon inspection at home, I quickly perused Google for the model numbers of the keyboards I picked up. To my dismay, almost all of the keyboards which comprised of Compaq, Dell and 'Digital' were rubber domes with sliders. I had great hopes for the Dell keyboard as it resembled pictures I had seen of an AT101W, unfortunately from my Google searches it seems that it's far from it.
Although initially disappointed, I finally came across one at the bottom of the box. I had a quick type and could tell immediately that it wasn't a rubber-dome, I immediately got out the disinfectant, cotton swabs and made it shine.
Anyway, to the point. I've been looking up the model number for this keyboard and I've only been able to find a single picture that seems to be in Chinese. I was wondering if anyone could help identifying?
Here's a link to the picture.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/349667-ta497636/2064740319/in/photostream/
Thanks for any help.
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Looks like Blue NEC switches. One of these, perhaps? (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:6638)
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Thank you, I'm pretty sure those are the switches exactly. It's a different model board, but yeah the switches seem exactly the same. I've been typing on them all day now, I think I'm in love.
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Pulled the picture off the web but yes, he does have quite nice shoes.
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Well, I do have an Australian two dollar coin right here.
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Alright, so I improvised a little with a chart on Wikipedia, but I got roughly 75g.
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I'm gonna be honest. I just read all your posts in the Neo voice because of your avatar. Even though it's a different movie.
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I honestly don't blame you.
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That is because he plays every part as a surfing FBI agent. Wooooooah, Bodhi.