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Title: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: jkercado on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:15:11

I had it as an all-black unit with no legends at all. While it looked cool, and was using it for training myself not to look at the keyboard (since I'm not a touch-typist), I found that I made far too many errors, hurting my productivity. I had been using it like this for about 4-5 months.

So I had an idea...Took the keyboard home with me yesterday and after checking, decided that the regulat white Model M keys would look really nice against the black keyboard and keys, so I did this:

(http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll236/jkercado/temporary-78.jpg)

I like it. :) I call it the tuxedo look. ;)

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:17:11

where did you get the blank keys?

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: jkercado on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:24:03

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:17:11

where did you get the blank keys?

Directly from Unicomp. They sell both the black blanks and the pearl/gray blank sets.

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: Turbo Slaab on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:27:00

Looks good man! The only thing I would have done differently was leave the number row black as well.

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: jkercado on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:28:09

Quote from: Turbo Slaab on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:27:00

Looks good man! The only thing I would have done differently was leave the number row black as well.

I tried that for symmetry's sake, but then the "white" area looked too small and constricted.

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: Turbo Slaab on Sat, 19 January 2013, 11:03:44

Quote from: jkercado on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:28:09

Quote from: Turbo Slaab on Sat, 19 January 2013, 10:27:00

Looks good man! The only thing I would have done differently was leave the number row black as well.

I tried that for symmetry's sake, but then the "white" area looked too small and constricted.

Ahh. Yeah, it is a pretty big board. Looks good none-the-less.

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: jkercado on Sat, 19 January 2013, 11:12:18

Thanks!

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: iri on Sat, 19 January 2013, 11:32:43

like this white on black

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: bazemk1979 on Sat, 19 January 2013, 19:08:24

LOL tuxedo style, like a sir!!!

Here are mein tuxedos

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: Vintage on Sat, 19 January 2013, 19:27:24

The blue mods are favorite.

Nice pics btw! ;D

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: sleepy916 on Wed, 23 January 2013, 15:39:39

Those Industrial Model Ms..... ;D

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: 0100010 on Wed, 23 January 2013, 19:16:04

I like blue modifiers myself.

That 'tuxedo' look is nice.

(http://i47.tinypic.com/2ue7cpu.jpg)

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: rootwyrm on Wed, 23 January 2013, 20:11:14

One of these days I'm going to break down and reproduce the 'inverse tuxedo' I did. Used a beige shell with the genuine IBM white-on-blacks, black spacebar, beige tricolor modifiers, and a clearshell F-row. (Had too many parts boards at the time.) I shudder to think what it would cost these days.

Title: Re: I went tuxedo with my Unicomp Ultra Classic
Post by: Larken on Wed, 23 January 2013, 22:24:28

grey suited up.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8185/8135816265_e28d072bb2_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89364707@N02/8135816265/)
CameraZOOM-20121029150732555 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89364707@N02/8135816265/) by lark132 (http://www.flickr.com/people/89364707@N02/), on Flickr