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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: nubbinator on Fri, 13 March 2015, 21:41:10
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It should have a mix of "vintage", old, and new Blacks. The caps also look like the thick caps to me, but I could be wrong.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1983-WYSE-Keyboard-could-use-for-silver-and-gold-recovery-/191535801018?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c986c62ba
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Screw vintage blacks and caps, think about the gold and silver you could recover!
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Screw vintage blacks and caps, think about the gold and silver you could recover!
> Spend $200 on materials to recover Ag an Au
> Recover $3 worth of AG and Au
> TFW totally worth it
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Nice, that does look like the layout that (sometimes? always?) has thick caps. I think it might be more difficult to find a Moogle set than to find thick WYSE, though!
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Nice, that does look like the layout that (sometimes? always?) has thick caps. I think it might be more difficult to find a Moogle set than to find thick WYSE, though!
It's not just the layout, but I remember the thick caps also having just a slightly different look to them. I could be full of ****, but I think I may be right.
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Well, at least you can mine the keyboard for resources if not :p
I would be interested if anyone has more info on IDing thick Wyse caps, all I know is that they always seem to be on that layout. I don't know anything about any particular "look" though, or even if that layout is at all a reliable way to ID them.
I used to see a lot more Wyse when I lurked Geekhack in 2013, I think it's fallen out of favor with so many keycap options these days.
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I have a case that someone could have if they want to wrap it up and use it
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oh, i actually won this auction last night :D
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oh, i actually won this auction last night :D
good to hear!
KB is a from a WY-50 and should have the thick keycaps. Don't leave them in the sun or they'll turn yellow.
as far as I know there's not any difference in the legends, but the only stabilized keycap is the spacebar, so that's one way to tell if it has thick or not. I could pull my WYSE keycap box out and check.
I have a case that someone could have if they want to wrap it up and use it
I believe this works with soarer's controller code, so you won't even need the cable.
I used to see a lot more Wyse when I lurked Geekhack in 2013, I think it's fallen out of favor with so many keycap options these days.
I know, me too.
The WY-50 has thick, the WY-60 has a similar layout but has stabilizers (and fulltouch caps) and thin. The Excellent WY-30 also has thin. AFAIK all versions of the WY-85, PCE and "gate array" have thin but I don't have any to check.
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Thin and thick never seems to have ryhme or reason. I've had mixed boards and I've had identical boards with different thicknesses. It's always a gamble.