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Title: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: nubbinator on Tue, 24 February 2015, 00:22:49: A cool little and uncommon 35g Topre board with spherical caps and JP layout

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Topre-mechanical-keyboard-Nissho-KB106DE-uniform-30g-with-sculpted-keys-/251853565018?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa3a46c5a

Deskthority wiki on it (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Nissho_KB106DE)
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: slickmamba on Tue, 24 February 2015, 00:30:18: What a cool board! Only if I had the disposable income! ha!
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: Touch_It on Tue, 24 February 2015, 10:37:30: Someone buy me this. Gots to cut back on keyboard spending :(.
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: saturnotaku on Tue, 24 February 2015, 11:19:58: I love those caps. Too spendy, though.
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: byker on Tue, 24 February 2015, 12:15:59: This is so cool. Will have to keep my eyes on it, but I am sure it will be wayyy out of my price range by the time it is finished. :p
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: nubbinator on Mon, 02 March 2015, 10:36:19: 11 hours left and no bids? I'm surprised. It's a rare board and cheaper than a Hi-Pro.
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: byker on Mon, 02 March 2015, 12:51:07: Quote from: nubbinator on Mon, 02 March 2015, 10:36:19
11 hours left and no bids? I'm surprised. It's a rare board and cheaper than a Hi-Pro.

Shhh. Don't bump this up. ;) I will keep an eye closer to the end-date, but I suspect it will go high in the last few minutes...
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: jwaz on Mon, 02 March 2015, 13:06:27: Quote from: nubbinator on Mon, 02 March 2015, 10:36:19
11 hours left and no bids? I'm surprised. It's a rare board and cheaper than a Hi-Pro.

Probably because JIS layouts are terrible.
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: nubbinator on Mon, 02 March 2015, 13:16:10: Quote from: jwaz on Mon, 02 March 2015, 13:06:27
Quote from: nubbinator on Mon, 02 March 2015, 10:36:19
11 hours left and no bids? I'm surprised. It's a rare board and cheaper than a Hi-Pro.

Probably because JIS layouts are terrible.

People seem to love the JIS HHKB.
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: jacobolus on Mon, 02 March 2015, 14:13:38: Quote from: jwaz on Mon, 02 March 2015, 13:06:27
Probably because JIS layouts are terrible.
The layout is terrible if you leave it as is (in particular the enter and right shift are comically far away, and that backspace is awful), but put some programmable firmware in there and this layout has a lot to work with; you can end up with something dramatically better than e.g. ANSI. In particular I think it would be great if you shift the right hand over by 2 columns by moving keycaps from the right side to the center, and use a thumb key for backspace.
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: nubbinator on Tue, 03 March 2015, 11:39:43: So who got it?
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: byker on Tue, 03 March 2015, 11:51:09: I did. :( I probably shouldn't have spent the money, but I did. :p
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: Touch_It on Tue, 03 March 2015, 11:52:16: Nonsense. Let us know how 35g switches feel if you wouldn't mind. Glad someone here got it.
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: jacobolus on Tue, 03 March 2015, 12:23:04: If you decide you don’t want it, I doubt you’ll have any problem reselling it for the same price or higher.
Title: Re: Nissho KB106DE
Post by: byker on Tue, 03 March 2015, 12:25:28: Quote from: jacobolus on Tue, 03 March 2015, 12:23:04
If you decide you don’t want it, I doubt you’ll have any problem reselling it for the same price or higher.

Hopefully, it was expensive after shipping/duty/currency conversion.. I guess I shall wait and see how it is. :D