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Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: Brendan on Sat, 12 November 2011, 23:50:19: Looking to try some of their DS keycaps, are the black boards DS? Which boards uses MX switches?

Thanks!
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: rvrebel on Sun, 13 November 2011, 01:06:33: I'm curios to know too. My dad worked for wyse ~25 years ago. Our early computers were from there as well as keyboards. I have been meaning to ask him if he still has any keyboards. I know we went through a handful and all mechanical.
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: BiNiaRiS on Sun, 13 November 2011, 02:51:33: There is a very rare Wyse board that is PS2. I've been looking for one for months and have yet to find one.

As for caps, any of the ones with Yellow arrows should be the nice doubleshots you are after.
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 13 November 2011, 10:34:52: Here you go... (http://www.stonesys.com/product.aspx?pf_id=900866-01) It's a little spendy, but it's listed as new condition. Even if not the page has the part numbers so it may be helpful to narrow your search.
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 13 November 2011, 13:49:17: Quote from: BiNiaRiS;451012
There is a very rare Wyse board that is PS2. I've been looking for one for months and have yet to find one.

As for caps, any of the ones with Yellow arrows should be the nice doubleshots you are after.
De you have the model number handy? I've been emailing computerrecyclers about it. (I can get a terminal SSK for "only" $125)

Edit: Right, it's 900866-01 from the link, lol.

I thought there were other PS2 ones (with the similar shape) also?

The arrowkeys aren't as awesome, too.

Edit: Most are listed under "mini-din" not PS2

http://www.brokerscreen.com/manufacture/WYSE/pn/900866-01.htm
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: Brendan on Sun, 13 November 2011, 16:16:05: So none of the black keys are doubleshots? I have seen the light grey ones on ebay as well as black.
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: BiNiaRiS on Sun, 13 November 2011, 16:42:04: Quote from: dorkvader;451230
De you have the model number handy? I've been emailing computerrecyclers about it. (I can get a terminal SSK for "only" $125)

Edit: Right, it's 900866-01 from the link, lol.

I thought there were other PS2 ones (with the similar shape) also?

The arrowkeys aren't as awesome, too.

Edit: Most are listed under "mini-din" not PS2

http://www.brokerscreen.com/manufacture/WYSE/pn/900866-01.htm

900840-2 is what I've been looking for.

Sent from my EVO
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: dorkvader on Mon, 14 November 2011, 10:11:31: Quote from: BiNiaRiS;451325
900840-2 is what I've been looking for.

Sent from my EVO
Why not just a 900840-1? What does the -2 signify? Findcanor says the -1 works with PC
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?17809-Some-random-loot

The 900866 looks like it'll work with a PC, too. I'm requesting quotes now

Also, there is a 901861 on recycledgoods that has a PS2 connector:
http://www.recycledgoods.com/products/Wyse-901861-PS-2-Keyboard-104-Key.html

I think it will work as well, though it has winkeys, so I think it is a RD.
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: Brendan on Mon, 14 November 2011, 20:05:42: Where's that facepalm smilie?

I decided to get some cheap Italian layout Cherry DS caps (new!), figured they were cheaper and are black instead of grey/white.

Brendan
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: dorkvader on Tue, 15 November 2011, 00:24:11: Quote from: ripster;451835
I'm sure whatever happens you will make a Wyse choice.
You've made that joke here before. Come up with something original!

Mr #1, is the WYSE 901861 a RD?
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: kaiserreich on Tue, 15 November 2011, 00:48:54: Whats with PS2 WYSE boards, anyone care to enlighten me?
From what I gathered, they are doubleshots, but thin ones.
I have never use any WYSE boards before.
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: dorkvader on Tue, 15 November 2011, 01:07:23: Quote from: kaiserreich;452396
Whats with PS2 WYSE boards, anyone care to enlighten me?
From what I gathered, they are doubleshots, but thin ones.
I have never use any WYSE boards before.
Yeah, from what I've seen, the newer WYSE doubleshots are thin, almost as bad as SP, but the WYSE PS2 borads are PC compatible!

Personally, I want to put my thick WYSE doubleshots on the newer WYSE board. It's better than trying to retrobrite an entire case to make the old board I have even worth teensy-ing.

B'sides, even with this, the blue\beige is classy, and the yellow arrowkeys are even more so.
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: Findecanor on Tue, 15 November 2011, 11:17:14: Quote from: dorkvader;451822
Why not just a 900840-1? What does the -2 signify? Findcanor says the -1 works with PC

Apparently, the 900840-01 has a horizontal (ANSI) key, and the 900840-02 (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?17811-my-firs-mechanical-keyboard-wyse-pce) has a vertical (ISO) key. Both are PS/2 - compatible.
The keys are plate-mounted Cherry MX Blacks.

Quote from: dorkvader;452416
B'sides, even with this, the blue\beige is classy, and the yellow arrowkeys are even more so.

Yep. Most of the legends are not black. They are dark blue.
For those who don't know already: Some guys in the Korean community OTD ordered WYSE replica key caps.. only something got wrong and the legends they got were in light blue instead. This new colour scheme has catched on, though, and 7bit has keys in that scheme as part of his group buy, round 4.
Title: Which Wyse board to look out for?
Post by: dorkvader on Tue, 15 November 2011, 18:47:24: Gotcha, I noticed that -1 -2 and -5 were made, so I thought they might correspond to different hardware revisions, or different key layouts.