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Title: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: precarious on Wed, 12 September 2012, 15:19:25
This store has been closing for a while now, so I decided to drop in and see what they had.  I found this board with Cherry MX blacks and the manager sold it to me for only six dollars.  The connection for the keyboard was RJ-11, but it didn't look like any other WYSE keyboard I'd seen -- is that what I'm looking at here?

Cleaning these keycaps was not fun, but they look much better now.

album @ http://imgur.com/a/ZCvIG

(http://i.imgur.com/VwiLT.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/MKuhFh.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/U187ch.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/MTUG5h.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/ZTsWmh.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/ik9xfh.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/ni4Jch.jpg)
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: sth on Wed, 12 September 2012, 15:21:37
yeah looks like a rebranded/debranded wyse terminal board. i have that same key set with the goofy stepped control keys. love that select button!
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Wed, 12 September 2012, 15:23:53
Damn, nice find... $6 for a mechanical keyboard is an amazing deal! You lucky bastard. :P
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: sth on Wed, 12 September 2012, 15:25:53
well unless your lighting is really yellow, you're not gonna find a 'matching' moogle set :P Might want to try retrobrite but I have 'faded' wyse keys that way so be careful with it
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: precarious on Wed, 12 September 2012, 15:27:46
Quote from: sth on Wed, 12 September 2012, 15:25:53
well unless your lighting is really yellow, you're not gonna find a 'matching' moogle set :P Might want to try retrobrite but I have 'faded' wyse keys that way so be careful with it

hah, yeah, these caps are pretty yellowed compared to how they look when you look at the underside, but it's not too bad.  anything that's closer than black would probably do the trick, though :)
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: FoxWolf1 on Wed, 12 September 2012, 16:04:11
Quote from: precarious on Wed, 12 September 2012, 15:19:25
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/MTUG5h.jpg)


Is that Zerg Creep growing inside of there? :eek:
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: The_Beast on Wed, 12 September 2012, 16:20:05
You could buy the $18 red overrun set form SP and use that as a moogle
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: Findecanor on Wed, 12 September 2012, 16:26:11
Are those key caps doubleshot-moulded with dark blue legends like on a real Wyse? I could not see it in these pics.
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Wed, 12 September 2012, 17:08:31
The boards were re/de-branded and destributed with a dozen 'brands' of terminals, all identical except keycaps. Most of them used black on white/beige, but there were a couple brands with thier unique branding colors like Wyse navy and yellow legends, and Triad with thier graphite/charcoal scheme.

That's probably one of the best purchases anyone has made at a K-Mart, ever.
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 12 September 2012, 17:17:15
Nice find :)
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: ShakeR on Wed, 12 September 2012, 17:46:51
Quote from: FoxWolf1 on Wed, 12 September 2012, 16:04:11

Is that Zerg Creep growing inside of there? :eek:

+1 nice.
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: dorkvader on Wed, 12 September 2012, 19:30:21
It's almost certainly a rebranded WYSE PCE (likely an 840358-01). Nice Vintage blacks. You should look into retrobriting the keycaps with H2O2.

Sweet find!
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: jkercado on Wed, 12 September 2012, 19:56:33
Ha! That's one unusual and cool find!
Title: Re: so I bought this at K-mart today for 6 dollars
Post by: Lanx on Thu, 13 September 2012, 20:26:23
clorox wipe every last cm!