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Title: Unicomp Customizer
Post by: EverythingIBM on Thu, 27 May 2010, 01:14:21

Quote from: ripster;187158

Link.
 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Unicomp-Customizer-104-105-Mechanical-Clicky-Keyboard-/180511674592?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item2a075590e0)
If it goes above $50 I'd just buy it directly from Unicomp.  The seller agrees with me that the Unicomps ARE a bit quieter.

$69 from Unicomp. (http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/customizer.html)  Unicomp's website NEVER changes.   Amazing.

Hey, would it be possible to ask unicomp if they could put one of their IBM LED badges instead of the unicomp one?

Title: Unicomp Customizer
Post by: InSanCen on Thu, 27 May 2010, 03:18:05

Quote from: EverythingIBM;187275

Hey, would it be possible to ask unicomp if they could put one of their IBM LED badges instead of the unicomp one?

Yes. Externally, they are an exact copy of the IBM's AFAIK. Why would you want to though, that Unicomp logo is the schiznit! ;-)

Title: Unicomp Customizer
Post by: Morning Song on Thu, 27 May 2010, 03:42:58

My old unicomp customizer 101 (Ordered around 2005), actually had the IBM style LED labels. (They were also on the bottom side of the label rather than the top)

So they've done it in the past; i don't know if they still do.

Title: Unicomp Customizer
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 27 May 2010, 04:32:49

Quote from: InSanCen;187280

Yes. Externally, they are an exact copy of the IBM's AFAIK.

Yes and no. The most authentic label you could get is a label from a 42H1292. The older style wouldn't fit.

Spot the difference -

(http://geekhack.org/picture.php?albumid=18&pictureid=327)

(http://geekhack.org/picture.php?albumid=18&pictureid=329)

It's to do with the positioning of the controller in the 42H.

Title: Unicomp Customizer
Post by: Half-Saint on Thu, 27 May 2010, 06:21:34

Could you do a case swap to turn a PS/2 model M into USB? :)

Title: Unicomp Customizer
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 27 May 2010, 06:24:06

Quote from: Half-Saint;187292

Could you do a case swap to turn a PS/2 model M into USB? :)

It would work with the 42H, but I'm almost certain that a Unicomp internal wouldn't fit inside an older style Model M.

Title: Unicomp Customizer
Post by: microsoft windows on Mon, 31 May 2010, 09:31:27

You know, I've got to wonder if keyboards like the M5-2 also got different controllers when the 42H came out.

Title: Unicomp Customizer
Post by: iMav on Mon, 31 May 2010, 15:06:33

In regards to LED labels.  Unicomp will sell you non-logo'ed labels if you ask. (I have a stack of them I got from Unicomp about a year ago)