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Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: pitashen on Sun, 15 January 2012, 20:52:24
Not like no one knows where the RBG set are mostly used, but I thought I would share some real life pics. If I am not mistaken those are dysubs instead of doubleshot and the board is MY/ML? switch based.

Quote from: pitashen;500943
If you ever drop by DWT, head to the international terminal concourse A. The way they set up the place gets you very easy access to the desk when the gate is empty (quite a few of them are). And then you just do the street photography trick, snap here snap there, BAM! click* click* click* click* at the keyboard... lol

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2UlLgmmHrg8/TxNdkIgOuGI/AAAAAAAAAvo/-ysK3wR6JYs/s800/_1000751.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-VsvdRI-qeWo/TxNeHQGvhPI/AAAAAAAAAvs/gTBUmNhTQvk/s800/_1000798.JPG)
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: litster on Sun, 15 January 2012, 21:07:19
Come to think of it, RGB Ctrl/Alt/Shift keycaps really are for n00bs who don't have all the shortcut keys memorized.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: tsangan on Sun, 15 January 2012, 22:10:58
I would ask to buy those haha

How did you get a picture behind the desk?

Are those stickers on the keyboard the combination they can use with RGB for shortcuts?
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: pitashen on Sun, 15 January 2012, 23:32:24
Quote from: tsangan;491383
I would ask to buy those haha

How did you get a picture behind the desk?

Are those stickers on the keyboard the combination they can use with RGB for shortcuts?

It was at the DWT concourse A. There were quite a few empty terminals where you could just walk near (behind) the counter and snap some pics without being overly suspicious.

Guess Bini could tell us how those color labels are in relation with the RBG keys. He was selling caps from one of those boards.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: sordna on Mon, 16 January 2012, 00:26:13
Whoah, they have a trackpoint too (between the GHB keys). Who makes these keyboards?
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: dorkvader on Mon, 16 January 2012, 01:33:39
And a bolt on it..?

Looks like a desko to me:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Desko-POS-KeyBoard-BMOC-4013-Magnetic-Stripe-and-Smart-Card-Terminal-/370575417698?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5648042162

I thought the curved area ender the spacebar looked like the desko "elbowglue" SPOS, and searched their website.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: sordna on Mon, 16 January 2012, 01:49:13
Nice detective work there! Looks very much like that Desko. Oh wait, Deskthority has a thread with photos of such boards complete with RGB keys:

http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1420
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: pitashen on Mon, 16 January 2012, 02:04:03
Quote from: sordna;491470
Nice detective work there! Looks very much like that Desko. Oh wait, Deskthority has a thread with photos of such boards complete with RGB keys:

http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1420

lol nice.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: BiNiaRiS on Mon, 16 January 2012, 04:13:32
They are for sure Deskos. Only the RGB keys and the caps with orange writing are dye subs. the rest are normal doubleshots. delta airlines uses these boards. they are in every airport from what i have seen. they pay $500/keyboard for them too and they aren't even MX switches. the older versions had the trackpoint in the middle of the keys so they cut off a portion of the caps to make room for it. The newer versions have the trackpoint in the front so the GHB keys are left in tact.

United Airlines uses a smaller version of the deskos with printed or lasered RGB keys. the CTRL/ALT on their boards are 1 units each so really small.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: Barn on Mon, 16 January 2012, 10:38:29
What on earth is going on with that printer?
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: BiNiaRiS on Fri, 27 January 2012, 14:48:49
Quote from: dorkvader;491458
And a bolt on it..?

Looks like a desko to me:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Desko-POS-KeyBoard-BMOC-4013-Magnetic-Stripe-and-Smart-Card-Terminal-/370575417698?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5648042162

I thought the curved area ender the spacebar looked like the desko "elbowglue" SPOS, and searched their website.

You all missed out on this one. I just picked it up and 75% of the board is dye sub :D

I'll post some pics when I get home on Sunday.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: whiskerBox on Fri, 27 January 2012, 15:32:37
See I tried to take a pic of those at the airport a couple of weeks ago and got yelled at. they also told me I was weird for wanting to take a pic of their keyboard lol I am probably flaged now cause of my keyboard admiration.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: pitashen on Fri, 27 January 2012, 15:47:10
Quote from: whiskerBox;500929
See I tried to take a pic of those at the airport a couple of weeks ago and got yelled at. they also told me I was weird for wanting to take a pic of their keyboard lol I am probably flaged now cause of my keyboard admiration.

If you ever drop by DWT, head to the international terminal concourse A. The way they set up the place gets you very easy access to the desk when the gate is empty (quite a few of them are). And then you just do the street photography trick, snap here snap there, BAM! click* click* click* click* at the keyboard... lol

EDIT: Concourse A (instead of C)
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: tsangan on Fri, 27 January 2012, 15:52:36
Quote from: pitashen;500943
If you ever drop by DWT, head to the international terminal concourse C. The way they set up the place gets you very easy access to the desk when the gate is empty (quite a few of them are). And then you just do the street photography trick, snap here snap there, BAM! click* click* click* click* at the keyboard... lol

and then run in to pluck a few of them :spy:
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: BiNiaRiS on Fri, 27 January 2012, 16:07:29
Quote from: whiskerBox;500929
See I tried to take a pic of those at the airport a couple of weeks ago and got yelled at. they also told me I was weird for wanting to take a pic of their keyboard lol I am probably flaged now cause of my keyboard admiration.

On my way to Europe in October I asked 3 ladies at a almost empty terminal if I could take a pic of the keyboard. They looked at me funny but laughed and said I don't see why not.

I joked about how much the caps were worth and one lady said she was obviously in the wrong business.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: o2dazone on Fri, 27 January 2012, 16:29:38
Quote from: BiNiaRiS;500972
On my way to Europe in October I asked 3 ladies at a almost empty terminal if I could take a pic of the keyboard. They looked at me funny but laughed and said I don't see why not.

I joked about how much the caps were worth and one lady said she was obviously in the wrong business.

I need balls the size of yours. I was at Victoria's Secret with my girlfriend, and behind the register was a Cherry ML4100 and I started geeking out. After about 30 seconds, I shut my mouth and walked away while my gf finished her purchase. I felt so ashamed for it.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: hashbaz on Fri, 27 January 2012, 17:08:56
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I need balls the size of yours. I was at Victoria's Secret with my girlfriend, and behind the register was a Cherry ML4100 and I started geeking out. After about 30 seconds, I shut my mouth and walked away while my gf finished her purchase. I felt so ashamed for it.


This seriously made me lol, and I don't use that term loosely.  The Onion headline writes itself.  "Area nerd in Panty Central can't stop ogling keyboard".
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: Barn on Fri, 27 January 2012, 17:41:45
Quote from: hashbaz;501004
This seriously made me lol, and I don't use that term loosely.  The Onion headline writes itself.  "Area nerd in Panty Central can't stop ogling keyboard".

Hahaha
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: SmallFry on Fri, 27 January 2012, 17:44:31
Quote from: hashbaz;501004
This seriously made me lol, and I don't use that term loosely.  The Onion headline writes itself.  "Area nerd in Panty Central can't stop ogling keyboard".
:twitch: The Onion would be a perfect place for that... On a more serious note...Victoria Secret is quite a nice store...strolled through there the other day with my girlfriend.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: o2dazone on Fri, 27 January 2012, 18:22:15
Quote from: hashbaz;501004
This seriously made me lol, and I don't use that term loosely.  The Onion headline writes itself.  "Area nerd in Panty Central can't stop ogling keyboard".

hahah god damnit :|
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: hazeluff on Fri, 27 January 2012, 18:24:56
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I snapped this at London Heathrow's Tax Refund counter. Keyboard Voyeurism...

Oh god, what have I become??

Also I think I saw some Cherry G80-11900 (?? It had a trackpad and looked really like this as far as I can remember) behind the Cathay Pacific counters.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: hashbaz on Fri, 27 January 2012, 18:30:47
Ooh, me likey.  My local PetSmart has 11900s.  I was in Macy's recently and stealthily gave their register keyboards a few pushes.  Really nice feel.  I suspect high-quality rubber dome, a lot like Topre but with a harder landing.   I tried to no avail to find a model number.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: hazeluff on Fri, 27 January 2012, 18:49:52
Quote from: hashbaz;501085
Ooh, me likey.  My local PetSmart has 11900s.  I was in Macy's recently and stealthily gave their register keyboards a few pushes.  Really nice feel.  I suspect high-quality rubber dome, a lot like Topre but with a harder landing.   I tried to no avail to find a model number.

I think I would do that at a store, but no the airport. You know how security is... Don't want to cause an awkward scene. "I swear I just wanted to fondle the switches of the keyboard a bit, I'm not a terrorist"
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: dorkvader on Sat, 28 January 2012, 11:38:07
Quote from: BiNiaRiS;500896
You all missed out on this one. I just picked it up and 75% of the board is dye sub :D

I'll post some pics when I get home on Sunday.
Where did you get it?
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I was visiting my friend, and I went into town with his father to get new brakes. The clerk at autozone had a cherry G80 (I forget which one, but it was fullsize). I asked if I could press a key on it.

I really need to get a camera, though. It would make taking pictures really easy.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: tsangan on Sat, 28 January 2012, 11:42:35
BiNi quoted the eBay link :confused:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Desko-POS-KeyBoard-BMOC-4013-Magnetic-Stripe-and-Smart-Card-Terminal-/370575417698?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5648042162
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: litster on Sat, 28 January 2012, 11:57:57
And that ebay seller is about 30 minutes away from me.  I went there once before and there were no Deskos.  But I bought a new-looking Cherry keyboard with black double shots for $50.  It was pulled out of a rack-mount KVM.  It is close to the airport.  Maybe they will have more from Delta counters ;-)
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: tsangan on Sat, 28 January 2012, 12:00:08
Might find some gold there from time to time :o
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: hashbaz on Sat, 28 January 2012, 14:01:35
Quote from: tsangan;501580
Might find some gold there from time to time :o

Wonderful, plastic gold.
Title: Great RBG set find! <Not for sale lol>
Post by: litster on Sat, 28 January 2012, 14:26:20
Not gold that floats on water.