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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: synack on Thu, 11 September 2014, 16:17:00

Title: ...actually ran into a keyboard savvy vendor at work
Post by: synack on Thu, 11 September 2014, 16:17:00

Haven't posted in a long time here but I thought I had to share...

Was cranking away with my RK-9000BR at work while a new vendor was tagging some printers and whatnot.  He stops at my desk, "Cherry browns?"  We then went off comparing to blues versus buckling spring, tenkeyless, otaku...

I've converted quite a few friends over time. This was definitely the first time ever I've met a random stranger that appreciates mech boards.  Nice work distraction...[attachimg=1]

Title: Re: ...actually ran into a keyboard savvy vendor at work
Post by: paicrai on Thu, 11 September 2014, 16:23:25

nice

Title: Re: ...actually ran into a keyboard savvy vendor at work
Post by: FrostyToast on Thu, 11 September 2014, 16:33:59

Did you ask if he was on a forum?

Title: Re: ...actually ran into a keyboard savvy vendor at work
Post by: dorkvader on Thu, 11 September 2014, 17:11:17

A guy came into the repair shop and recommended we go to pckeyboard.com for unicomps. I showed him the 1390120 I was using at the time.

Title: Re: ...actually ran into a keyboard savvy vendor at work
Post by: Puddsy on Thu, 11 September 2014, 19:19:47

hehehe

I'm imagining someone trying to school you on BS boards

Title: Re: ...actually ran into a keyboard savvy vendor at work
Post by: synack on Thu, 11 September 2014, 23:48:31

Quote from: FrostyToast on Thu, 11 September 2014, 16:33:59

Did you ask if he was on a forum?

I did actually, surprisingly he wasn't on any forum.  Must be a lurker because he definitely was in the know.

Quote from: TacticalStache on Thu, 11 September 2014, 19:19:47

I'm imagining someone trying to school you on BS boards

Heh, my second computer after the Trash 80 was an IBM XT -- I was hooked early.  ;D  Up until very recently I would swap out Blues for BS every once and a while at work.  We recently moved to a new office building with low cubes and an open floor plan...  To be polite I switched to Browns -- It was also a very good excuse to buy another board.   :cool:

Honestly I've been very pleased with the switch (unintentional pun...)  Browns are definitely work friendly...

Title: Re: ...actually ran into a keyboard savvy vendor at work
Post by: katushkin on Fri, 12 September 2014, 18:09:27

The closest I got to this was seeing a guy at work from a distance with white caps on a clearly non-standard board. As I got closer I saw it was a Logitech washable board... Hmpf...

Title: Re: ...actually ran into a keyboard savvy vendor at work
Post by: mikekey on Fri, 12 September 2014, 19:04:30

A coworker has a Das but did not know the color of the switch.

Title: Re: ...actually ran into a keyboard savvy vendor at work
Post by: Razor Lotus on Sat, 13 September 2014, 06:36:56

should've asked him which community he was from