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geekhack Marketplace => Classifieds => Topic started by: Ascaii on Sat, 03 August 2013, 05:49:41
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I have several PCBS with these rare switches, but I also have desoldered switches if you only want to buy a handful. Each PCB holds 118 clear top MX vintage black switches and one clear top MX linear white space bar switch. The stabilizers are super solid screw in stabilizers that will never wiggle.
Price for one PCB is 100€ including insurance and tracked shipping worldwide.
Price for loose switches depends on amount, please contact me to discuss.
Please feel free to get in touch with me, either via email at ascaii@geekhack.org or via pm (email preferred, i hate the pm system)
Trades welcome:
I am looking for:
HHKB
uniform fullsizue RF in ISO-DE or ANSI layout
replacement caps for HHKB (my left shift broke)
Rollermouse
anything interesting
Not interested in:
Clacks
Brobots
other overpriced "collectible" caps
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Oh man.. If I had 100 euros right now..
These things will go like hotcakes.
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PMed, sir.
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One PCB sold to Sent. 3 remain.
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pm'd
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GL Ascaii :D
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Luck? This one does not need luck... I think the luck was had when he found/got these.
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I really don't think he needs luck, I just hope I can get a PCB's worth of desoldered switches from him... I don't even want for the black stems, dat casing!
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If all you're after is the clear top housing then join that GB. I understand it's not Cherry manufactured, but so?
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I like to keep a surplus of black switches in case plus I want the springs to make ergo clears
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I like to keep a surplus of black switches in case plus I want the springs to make ergo clears
Black springs make ergo-clears?
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I goofed but I like the black springs :p
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I like to keep a surplus of black switches in case plus I want the springs to make ergo clears
Black springs make ergo-clears?
black springs make panda-clears
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Turns out Sent isnt interested after all, so all 4 PCBs remain for sale.
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Two pcbs sold.
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Looking to sell the last two soon. Also will take trades.
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What kind of trades are you looking for?
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What kind of trades are you looking for?
Im open for any kind of offers. What I am definitely looking for at some point is a fullsize uniform realforce in US or german layout.
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Due to recent offers I would like to clarify that I have no interest in clacks or brobots.
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Also looking for fullsize uniform RF in ANSI or ISO-DE layout.
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updated OP with wishlist for trades
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Sent ya a mail...
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So I notice you say these are Vintage Nixdorf, and old blacks, but then "vintage blacks" in the post. Are these truly the amazingly smooth feeling switches of olden days or will they be so scratchy I'll want to tear my eyes out of their sockets?
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So I notice you say these are Vintage Nixdorf, and old blacks, but then "vintage blacks" in the post. Are these truly the amazingly smooth feeling switches of olden days or will they be so scratchy I'll want to tear my eyes out of their sockets?
They have clear tops so it doesn't matter what they feel like! GLWS!
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DO you have any upclose pictures of the MX Vintage Black switches so we can see the logo?
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The PCBs are older, smoother blacks. Nixdorf called the terminals their "soft-touch" line.
Ill take some pics for the logo right away.
Ive tried to take pictures of the logo with my Lumix, but I cant get the damn things in focus. I will be getting a DSLR next week, will take pictures then. They have the original cherry logo on them.
I went digging on the waybackmachine to see if the pictures that Sixty made for his website survived, but unfortunately I could only recover the text:
Nixdorf Computer Softkey
Cherry MX Black (with clear casing), Double-injection molded keycaps, 1988
This is by far the most obscure and interesting keyboard I currently have in my collection. It comes with Cherry MX Black switches, which feature a transparent case! No one had seen this type of switch before another German geekhack member discovered these earlier in 2010.
The keyboard appears to be for a Nixdorf Computer system and is not compatible with any current PC hardware. The variant found earlier this year featured a different layout and a few other changes, but used the same clear case switches.
Each keycap originally came with a rubber o-ring to produce a softer and more quiet landing when bottoming out on the keys. This works quite well and its real joy to type on this board. Sadly after almost 25 years most of the rubber is starting to fall apart.
As you can tell by the pre 1990 production date, these are older, smoother blacks.
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Any close ups of the switch tops?
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Is sixty still around? I remember him quitting because of health issues... consider this as free bump :))
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Nope, sixty has vanished for a bit...I am sure he will be back eventually...but for now he has more pressing matters to take care of.
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Received my PCB. Anyone considering buying one.. Just do it! These switches are beautfiul and a joy to type on.
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Any close ups of the switch tops?
Anyone?
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Any close ups of the switch tops?
Anyone?
Here are some pictues I attempted to take with a torch as lighting :
Hard to get the logos to show up, but you can see them in the upper switches :
(http://i.imgur.com/XdQ8uao.jpg)
Note the metal you can see at the top of the stab :
(http://i.imgur.com/zmvf47F.png)
Stabiliser is held to the PCB with a screw :
(http://i.imgur.com/hnU7zyV.png)
Very bad photo, but you can make out that the stem of these stabilisers isn't like most PCB stabiliser stems :
(http://i.imgur.com/bEG97P0.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/gGctRsA.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/Ah9gn0c.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/KiShpCy.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/lKyZnPV.png)
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Thanks for the photos!
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Thank you very much for those photos!
The stabilizers are the best stabilizers I have owned...im putting a set of them on my phantom :D
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Thank you very much for those photos!
The stabilizers are the best stabilizers I have owned...im putting a set of them on my phantom :D
not sure if you know that but the phantom pcb does not support pcb mounted stabilizers.