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Title: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: nubbinator on Fri, 07 November 2014, 01:03:01: It's kind of pricey, but it has some cool caps and is likely MX Blacks based on ones I've seen in the past, but it could be Browns or Clears too.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alcatel-Lucent-4059-USB-Keyboard-/321573355198?pt=Other_Telecom_Equipment&hash=item4adf43febe
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: Photekq on Fri, 07 November 2014, 07:25:43: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Alcatel_MMK_Keyboard

For more info
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: dorkvader on Fri, 07 November 2014, 17:37:43: Oh I saw that and said "nope" at the price.

Looks like it went for best offer : $160.

anyone here..?
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: nubbinator on Fri, 07 November 2014, 17:44:44: Yeah, the price is a big nope, but it's a cool board.
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: jacobolus on Fri, 07 November 2014, 18:55:48: With those ridiculous shift keys, I hope no one has to type capital letters on that thing.

Otherwise, neat.
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: jwaz on Fri, 07 November 2014, 18:57:11: I work in an ex Alcatel-Lucent facility, too bad they probably threw all these away when we moved in :p
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: dorkvader on Fri, 07 November 2014, 20:09:55: Quote from: jacobolus on Fri, 07 November 2014, 18:55:48
With those ridiculous shift keys, I hope no one has to type capital letters on that thing.

Otherwise, neat.

I think you're supposed to rapidly doubletap capslock sean wrona style.
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 08 November 2014, 00:59:33: Colorway is baller on those... too bad the layout is so zany. Hell, I didn't even hold onto my set and I paid like a quarter that price. Maybe one of these days we can groupbuy the colorway on a set that makes sense for most modern boards.
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: Photekq on Sat, 08 November 2014, 01:11:40: Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 08 November 2014, 00:59:33
Colorway is baller on those... too bad the layout is so zany. Hell, I didn't even hold onto my set and I paid like a quarter that price. Maybe one of these days we can groupbuy the colorway on a set that makes sense for most modern boards.
Yeah, the colourway is great. I would love to see it done properly. The G81-3205HAU is almost perfect, but it has some 'special' keys [including the caps/ctrl] which are supposedly horrible pad printed caps not made by Cherry.

(http://i.imgur.com/j8s4b5s.jpg)

Photo from qinqin iirc
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 08 November 2014, 08:26:46: Not sure why those would be pad printed (though they did things like that for no apparent reason) when doubleshots existed for those... not sure about the Option key though, never seen that elsewhere.
Title: Re: Alcatel-Lucent 4059 USB Keyboard
Post by: Photekq on Sat, 08 November 2014, 08:29:53: Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 08 November 2014, 08:26:46
Not sure why those would be pad printed (though they did things like that for no apparent reason) when doubleshots existed for those... not sure about the Option key though, never seen that elsewhere.
They weren't made by Cherry. It wasn't Cherry being needlessly odd [for once]. There's a picture of the underside, which looks completely different from any Cherry keycaps, but I can't find it..